Elizabeth J. Perry
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- January 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780520271890
- eISBN:
- 9780520954038
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520271890.003.0001
- Subject:
- Sociology, Marriage and the Family
This chapter briefly reviews scholarship on Mao and the Chinese Revolution, introduces the main subject of this study (the revolutionary tradition surrounding the Anyuan labor movement), and ...
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This chapter briefly reviews scholarship on Mao and the Chinese Revolution, introduces the main subject of this study (the revolutionary tradition surrounding the Anyuan labor movement), and summarizes the key concepts to be employed: cultural positioning and cultural patronage.Less
This chapter briefly reviews scholarship on Mao and the Chinese Revolution, introduces the main subject of this study (the revolutionary tradition surrounding the Anyuan labor movement), and summarizes the key concepts to be employed: cultural positioning and cultural patronage.
Guobin Yang
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- January 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780231149648
- eISBN:
- 9780231520485
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Columbia University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7312/columbia/9780231149648.003.0002
- Subject:
- History, Asian History
A political culture that consecrates revolution and glories martyrdom, fostered in a political atmosphere of external threat and internal danger, is a potent concoction for radical violence.
A political culture that consecrates revolution and glories martyrdom, fostered in a political atmosphere of external threat and internal danger, is a potent concoction for radical violence.
Jeffrey Merrick and Bryant T. Ragan
- Published in print:
- 1996
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780195093032
- eISBN:
- 9780199854493
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195093032.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, European Modern History
This book explores the realities and representations of same-sex sexuality in France in the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries, the period that witnessed the emergence of “homosexuality” in the modern ...
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This book explores the realities and representations of same-sex sexuality in France in the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries, the period that witnessed the emergence of “homosexuality” in the modern sense of the word. Based on archival research and textual analysis, the chapters examine the development of homosexual subcultures and illustrate the ways in which philosophers, pamphleteers, police, novelists, scientists, and politicians conceptualized same-sex relations and connected them with more general concerns about order and disorder. The book uses the methods of intellectual and cultural history, the history of science, literary studies, legal and social history, and microhistory. This book shows how the subject of homosexuality is related to important topics in French history: the Enlightenment, the revolutionary tradition, social discipline, positivism, elite and popular culture, nationalism, feminism, and the construction of identity.Less
This book explores the realities and representations of same-sex sexuality in France in the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries, the period that witnessed the emergence of “homosexuality” in the modern sense of the word. Based on archival research and textual analysis, the chapters examine the development of homosexual subcultures and illustrate the ways in which philosophers, pamphleteers, police, novelists, scientists, and politicians conceptualized same-sex relations and connected them with more general concerns about order and disorder. The book uses the methods of intellectual and cultural history, the history of science, literary studies, legal and social history, and microhistory. This book shows how the subject of homosexuality is related to important topics in French history: the Enlightenment, the revolutionary tradition, social discipline, positivism, elite and popular culture, nationalism, feminism, and the construction of identity.
Andy Willimott
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- November 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780198725824
- eISBN:
- 9780191792793
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198725824.003.0002
- Subject:
- History, European Modern History, Cultural History
Chapter 1 shows how the urban communes and communards drew on pre-revolutionary sources—including the work of the nineteenth-century Russian radical Nikolai Chernyshevsky—alongside early ...
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Chapter 1 shows how the urban communes and communards drew on pre-revolutionary sources—including the work of the nineteenth-century Russian radical Nikolai Chernyshevsky—alongside early twentieth-century conceptions of Marxism. The urban commune impulse is presented as a construct of activist interpretation and Russian revolutionary traditions. The virtues of group orientation, brotherhood, and self-sacrifice for the common good were a long-celebrated aspect of Russia’s revolutionary heritage. The words ‘collective’ and ‘collectivism’ gained currency with small worker groups from the turn of the century. And the heroic story of the Paris Commune (1871) was very much in vogue in Soviet Russia after 1917. The activists of the urban communes are shown to take from all these influences—presented as keen readers of revolutionary literature and the Soviet press—as well as idealized interpretations of traditional Russian worker and peasant cooperation.Less
Chapter 1 shows how the urban communes and communards drew on pre-revolutionary sources—including the work of the nineteenth-century Russian radical Nikolai Chernyshevsky—alongside early twentieth-century conceptions of Marxism. The urban commune impulse is presented as a construct of activist interpretation and Russian revolutionary traditions. The virtues of group orientation, brotherhood, and self-sacrifice for the common good were a long-celebrated aspect of Russia’s revolutionary heritage. The words ‘collective’ and ‘collectivism’ gained currency with small worker groups from the turn of the century. And the heroic story of the Paris Commune (1871) was very much in vogue in Soviet Russia after 1917. The activists of the urban communes are shown to take from all these influences—presented as keen readers of revolutionary literature and the Soviet press—as well as idealized interpretations of traditional Russian worker and peasant cooperation.
Yang Li
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- May 2018
- ISBN:
- 9789888390892
- eISBN:
- 9789888455003
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Hong Kong University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5790/hongkong/9789888390892.003.0004
- Subject:
- History, Asian History
Revolutionary popular novels that took revolutionary history as their subject matter appeared in the mid-1950s and became one of the most important genres in modern Chinese literature, garnering a ...
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Revolutionary popular novels that took revolutionary history as their subject matter appeared in the mid-1950s and became one of the most important genres in modern Chinese literature, garnering a large reading public. Tracks in the Snowy Forest, the most representative of these novels, employed three main elements from traditional fiction, namely “heroes, youths, and gods” to represent the modern concept of Chinese revolution, thereby using old bottles to contain new wine. Careful analysis of these novels demonstrates the complex, intricate relationship between revolution and tradition in modern China.Less
Revolutionary popular novels that took revolutionary history as their subject matter appeared in the mid-1950s and became one of the most important genres in modern Chinese literature, garnering a large reading public. Tracks in the Snowy Forest, the most representative of these novels, employed three main elements from traditional fiction, namely “heroes, youths, and gods” to represent the modern concept of Chinese revolution, thereby using old bottles to contain new wine. Careful analysis of these novels demonstrates the complex, intricate relationship between revolution and tradition in modern China.
Michael Zakim and Gary J. Kornblith (eds)
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- September 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780226451091
- eISBN:
- 9780226977997
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226977997.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, American History: 19th Century
Most scholarship on nineteenth-century America’s transformation into a market society has focused on consumption, romanticized visions of workers, and analysis of firms and factories. Building on but ...
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Most scholarship on nineteenth-century America’s transformation into a market society has focused on consumption, romanticized visions of workers, and analysis of firms and factories. Building on but moving past these studies, this book presents a history of family farming, general incorporation laws, mortgage payments, inheritance practices, office systems, and risk management—an inventory of the means by which capitalism became America’s new revolutionary tradition. This multidisciplinary collection of essays argues not only that capitalism reached far beyond the purview of the economy, but also that the revolution was not confined to the destruction of an agrarian past. As business ceaselessly revised its own practices, a new demographic of private bankers, insurance brokers, investors in securities, and start-up manufacturers, among many others, assumed center stage, displacing older elites and forms of property. Explaining how capital became an “ism” and how business became a political philosophy, it brings the economy back into American social and cultural history.Less
Most scholarship on nineteenth-century America’s transformation into a market society has focused on consumption, romanticized visions of workers, and analysis of firms and factories. Building on but moving past these studies, this book presents a history of family farming, general incorporation laws, mortgage payments, inheritance practices, office systems, and risk management—an inventory of the means by which capitalism became America’s new revolutionary tradition. This multidisciplinary collection of essays argues not only that capitalism reached far beyond the purview of the economy, but also that the revolution was not confined to the destruction of an agrarian past. As business ceaselessly revised its own practices, a new demographic of private bankers, insurance brokers, investors in securities, and start-up manufacturers, among many others, assumed center stage, displacing older elites and forms of property. Explaining how capital became an “ism” and how business became a political philosophy, it brings the economy back into American social and cultural history.
