The Maoist Model, Development & DemocracyCareers in Shanghai: The Social Guidance of Personal Energies in a Developing Chinese City, 1949-1966. By Lynn T. White, III Up to the Mountains and down to the Villages: The Transfer of Youth from Urban to Rural China. By Thomas P. Bernstein Political Behavior of Adolescents in China: The Cultural Revolution in Kwangchow. By David M. Raddock Opposition and Dissent in Contemporary China. By Peter R. Moody Chinese Shadows. By Simon Leys

Polity ◽  
1981 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 697-708
Author(s):  
Wayne Bert
Keyword(s):  
Political Behavior ◽  
Cultural Revolution ◽  
Rural China ◽  
Model Development ◽  
Contemporary China ◽  
Chinese City ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Cultural Revolution

scholarly journals Zhao Jiping and the sound of resistance in Red Sorghum

2015 ◽  
Vol 56 (4) ◽  
pp. 355-366
Author(s):  
Brian C. Thompson
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Revolution ◽  
Rural China ◽  
Nobel Laureate ◽  
Mao Zedong ◽  
Musical Language ◽  
Mo Yan ◽  
Cultural Expression ◽  
Concert Music ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Cultural Revolution

Since seizing power in 1949, China’s Communist Party has exerted firm control over all aspects of cultural expression. This policy took its most radical turn in the mid-1960s when Mao Zedong launched the Cultural Revolution (1966–1976), aiming to rid the country of bourgeois elements. The composer Zhao Jiping was a student at the Xi’an Conservatory during this period. He graduated in 1970, but was able to continue his studies only when the Central Conservatory reopened in 1978. On completing his studies, he established himself as a composer of folk-inspired music for film and the concert stage. This paper focuses on Zhao’s score for director Zhang Yimou’s Red Sorghum (Hong gao liang, 1987), a film based on the 1986 novel by 2012 Nobel laureate Mo Yan. While the composer enjoyed only limited recognition beyond China, he went on to score other successful films, among them Raise the Red Lantern (1991) and Farewell, My Concubine (1993), and achieve success as a composer of concert music. The paper connects Zhao’s musical language to the impact of the Cultural Revolution by examining how in Red Sorghum his music was employed to evoke a virile image of rural China.

The Aura of Confucius

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julia K. Murray
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Revolution ◽  
Visual Images ◽  
Contemporary China ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Temple ◽  
Modern Shanghai ◽  
The Cultural Revolution

The Aura of Confucius is a ground-breaking study that reconstructs the remarkable history of Kongzhai, a shrine founded on the belief that Confucius' descendants buried the sage's robe and cap a millennium after his death and far from his home in Qufu, Shandong. Improbably located on the outskirts of modern Shanghai, Kongzhai featured architecture, visual images, and physical artifacts that created a 'Little Queli,' a surrogate for the temple, cemetery, and Kong descendants' mansion in Qufu. Centered on the Tomb of the Robe and Cap, with a Sage Hall noteworthy for displaying sculptural icons and not just inscribed tablets, Kongzhai attracted scholarly pilgrims who came to experience Confucius's beneficent aura. Although Kongzhai gained recognition from the Kangxi emperor, its fortunes  declined with modernization, and it was finally destroyed during the Cultural Revolution. Unlike other sites, Kongzhai has not been rebuilt and its history is officially forgotten, despite the Confucian revival in contemporary China.

Red service-intellectual: Phouk Chhay, Maoist China, and the Cultural Revolution in Cambodia, 1964–67

2021 ◽  
Vol 52 (2) ◽  
pp. 275-308
Author(s):  
Matthew Galway
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Revolution ◽  
Social Experiences ◽  
Intellectual Curiosity ◽  
The Social ◽  
Life Trajectory ◽  
Radical Culture ◽  
Maoist China ◽  
Rural Student ◽  
The Cultural Revolution

This article examines the phenomenon of Cambodian intellectual curiosity about China through the social experiences of Phouk Chhay, a prominent leftist activist-critic and Pol Pot's one-time secretary. Amid Phnom Penh's urban radical culture, Phouk transformed from rural student to Communist guerrilla. He associated with Communists, formed pro-China student associations, and through his networks, went on trips that left lasting impressions. This study draws from issues of the Cambodian-Chinese newspaper Mianhua ribao (Sino-Khmer Daily) and several forced confessions to tell a story of becoming that examines community and network in charting the course of ‘China-curiosity’ as intertwined with Phouk's life trajectory.

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