How Maoism Was Made

Reconstructing China, 1949-1965
How Maoism Was Made features new scholarship on the early years after the Chinese Communist revolution, showing how ordinary people in China built socialism through their contributions to industry, science, and the arts.

How Maoism Was Made focuses on the history of the early years in China after 1949, featuring new scholarship by academics across Europe and North America. The field of early PRC history has been transformed by the unprecedented accessibility of archives from the 1990s to the early 2010s. Sixteen contributors show how the revolutionary system was built and maintained by the efforts of non-elite actors, including scientists, farmers, designers, artists, cadres, and ordinary citizens. By abandoning the Cold War political work of vilifying or celebrating Chinese communism, How Maoism Was Made aims to render the history of the Maoist system comprehensible to specialists and non-specialists alike, by viewing it through the lens of people who made it. Chinese communism is revealed to be a set of beliefs and practices that inspired millions of people to (re-)build their country and find a new life within it, at times with tragic consequences.

Contributor: Aaron William Moore (Edited by), Jennifer Altehenger (Edited by)

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