{"product_id":"modern-erasures-revolution-the-civilizing-mission-and-the-shaping-of-chinas-past-paperback-softback-9781009012935","title":"Modern Erasures; Revolution, the Civilizing Mission, and the Shaping of China's Past (Paperback \/ softback) 9781009012935","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eModern Erasures\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eRevolution, the Civilizing Mission, and the Shaping of China's Past\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eReveals the acts of epistemic violence behind China's revolutionary transformation from a semi-colonized republic to Communist state over the twentieth century.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003ePierre Fuller (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781009012935, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 25 January 2024\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e362 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.8 x 15.1 x 1.9 cm, 0.53 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e'… a remarkably nuanced and largely persuasive contribution to the burgeoning field of memory studies and to our knowledge of the structure of China's twentieth century revolution.' Peter Zarrow, Journal of Chinese History\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eModern Erasures is an ambitious and innovative study of the acts of epistemic violence behind China's transformation from a semicolonized republic to a Communist state over the twentieth century. Pierre Fuller charts the pedigree of Maoist thought and practice between the May Fourth movement of 1919 and the peak of the Cultural Revolution in 1969 to shed light on the relationship between epistemic and physical violence, book burning and bloodletting, during China's revolutions. Focusing on communities in remote Gansu province and the wider region over half a century, Fuller argues that in order to justify the human cost of revolution and the building of the national party-state, a form of revolutionary memory developed in China on the nature of social relations and civic affairs in the recent past. Through careful analysis of intellectual and cultural responses to, and memories of, earthquakes, famine and other disaster events in China, this book shows how the Maoist evocation of the 'old society' earmarked for destruction was only the most extreme phase of a transnational, colonial-era conversation on the 'backwardness' of rural communities.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eList of Figures and Maps\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgements\u003cbr\u003e Note on the Text\u003cbr\u003e Introduction\u003cbr\u003e Part I. Seeing and Not Seeing: 1. Networks into China's Northwest\u003cbr\u003e 2. New Culture Lenses onto Rural Life\u003cbr\u003e 3. Western Projections onto a 'Chinese Screen'\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Revolutionary Memory in Republican China: 4. Civics Lessons\u003cbr\u003e 5. Party Discipline\u003cbr\u003e 6. The Emergence of the Peasantry\u003cbr\u003e 7. Woodcuts and Forsaken Subjects\u003cbr\u003e Part III. Maoist Narratives in the 1940s: 8. Village Drama\u003cbr\u003e 9. Reaching Urban Youth\u003cbr\u003e Part IV. Politics of Oblivion in the People's Republic: 10. Communal Memory over Two Republics\u003cbr\u003e 11. The National Subsumes the Local: the Fifties\u003cbr\u003e 12. Culture as Historical Foil: the Great Leap Forward\u003cbr\u003e 13. Politics of Oblivion: the Cultural Revolution\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Social \u0026amp; cultural history [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Social \u0026amp; cultural history\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Social%20\u0026amp;%20cultural%20history%20%5BHBTB%5D%22\"\u003eHBTB\u003c\/a\u003e], Asian history [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Asian history\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Asian%20history%20%5BHBJF%5D%22\"\u003eHBJF\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52410753286424,"sku":"9781009012935","price":25.29,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/files\/9781009012935i.jpg?v=1784251755","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/modern-erasures-revolution-the-civilizing-mission-and-the-shaping-of-chinas-past-paperback-softback-9781009012935","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}