{"product_id":"anyuan-elizabeth-perry-9780520271906","title":"Anyuan: Mining China's Revolutionary Tradition Volume 24","description":"How do we explain the surprising trajectory of the Chinese Communist revolution? Why has it taken such a different route from its Russian prototype? An answer, Elizabeth Perry suggests, lies in the Chinese Communists' creative development and deployment of cultural resources - during their revolutionary rise to power and afterwards. Skillful \"cultural positioning\" and \"cultural patronage,\" on the part of Mao Zedong, his comrades and successors, helped to construct a polity in which a once alien Communist system came to be accepted as familiarly \"Chinese.\" Perry traces this process through a case study of the Anyuan coal mine, a place where Mao and other early leaders of the Chinese Communist Party mobilized an influential labor movement at the beginning of their revolution, and whose history later became a touchstone of \"political correctness\" in the People's Republic of China. Once known as \"China's Little Moscow,\" Anyuan came over time to symbolize a distinctively Chinese revolutionary tradition. Yet the meanings of that tradition remain highly contested, as contemporary Chinese debate their revolutionary past in search of a new political future.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Elizabeth Perry\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0520271904\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780520271906\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of California Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/01\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 412\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.20lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 6.00w x 1.20d","brand":"Elizabeth Perry","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48064999751935,"sku":"9780520271906","price":34.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_4ff73f18-df9e-4abd-b5f3-70e971b79a4e.jpg?v=1768672467","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/anyuan-elizabeth-perry-9780520271906","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}