Intellectuals in revolutionary China, 1921-1949 : leaders, heroes and sophisticates /
"In Intellectuals in Revolutionary China, 1921-1949 Hung-yok Ip examines how Communist intellectuals in China during the revolutionary period (1921-1949) constructed and presented identities for themselves. She looks at how they narrated their place in the revolution and how these identities la...
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| Online Access: | Electronic book from EBSCO |
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Published: | London ; New York : RoutledgeCurzon, 2005. |
| Series: | Chinese worlds.
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Table of Contents:
- Part I. Introduction
- Perspectives
- Part II. Leaders: self-construction from the functional perspective
- Radical intellectuals as the guiding force of change: beginning of the political odyssey
- Manufacturing political leadership I: the Yaqian intellectuals and Peng Pai
- Manufacturing political leadership II: Mao Zedong
- Part III. Heroes: self-construction from the emotional perspective
- Narrating politicized subjectivity
- The nobility of ambivalence and devotion
- Part IV. Sophisticates: self-construction from the aesthetic experience
- Clinging to refinement in the revolution
- Part V. Epilogue
- Self-construction, politics and culture: some general reflections
- Conclusion.