Jude Blanchette
Autor(a) de China's New Red Guards: The Return of Radicalism and the Rebirth of Mao Zedong
Obras de Jude Blanchette
Hidden Harbors: China’s State-backed Shipping Industry 1 exemplar(es)
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- 2
- Membros
- 25
- Popularidade
- #508,561
- Avaliação
- 4.1
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- 1
- ISBNs
- 4
Flash forward 10-15 years and we have this book, which might be better entitled “China’s Grumpy Old Red Guards.” What tends to aggravate these folks is how the traditions of the pre-1981 years have been cast aside, leaving working-class folks in the lurch.
While examining the beliefs of these people in some detail, Blanchette goes to some lengths to demonstrate that the current leader of the PRC, Xi Jinping, is perfectly willing to exploit these feelings to chastise his opposition on the “right.” This is at least until organizations of a Neo-Maoist persuasion get too obstreperous and the hammer is dropped.
The basically insolvable issue, as most of the people who read this book will be aware of, is the Chinese Communist Party's efforts to retain the person of Mao Tsetung as the symbol of their legitimacy to wield power in Beijing, while repudiating the inheritance of the Great Cultural Revolution. It is to be hoped that the inability to transcend domestic contradiction in domestic conflict does not lead to foreign military adventurism.… (mais)