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Nebulous Nexus : Modernity and Perlustration in Maoist China

In English

Författare

Redaktör

  • Michael Kim
  • Yong-Woo Kim
  • Michael Schoenhals

Summary, in English

This chapter posits the existence of a nexus of modernity and surveillance in the People’s Republic of China in the untidy post-Liberation decade of the 1950s. It identifies the state’s interception and perlustration of ordinary people’s correspondence for the purpose of discovering what they were thinking as a central component of that nexus, and it illustrates this identification with contemporary data culled from a corpus of recently declassified intercept transcripts. It argues that the creation of an alternative modernity—labelled communism but defined by discipline and quantifiable order rather than simply by ”freedom from want”—was attempted by China’s then political leadership, but ultimately abandoned in favour of the quiet consolidation of really existing socialism with Chinese characteristics.

Avdelning/ar

Publiceringsår

2013

Språk

Engelska

Sidor

53-70

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

Mass Dictatorship and Modernity

Volym

#2 in book series "Mass Dictatorship in the 20th Century"

Dokumenttyp

Del av eller Kapitel i bok

Förlag

Palgrave Macmillan

Ämne

  • History and Archaeology

Nyckelord

  • Modernity
  • China
  • history
  • politics
  • Mao
  • mass dictatorship

Status

Published

Projekt

  • A Hundred Million Lives on File?––Confidential Records and Social Control in Mao Zedong’s China
  • Mass Dictatorships of the 20th Century

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISBN: 978-1-137-30432-2