Studies of China and Chineseness since the Cultural Revolution

The following sections are included:

• Foreword
• Preface
• About the Editors
• Introduction: Who Is Writing the Cultural Revolution?
• Contents

In studies of the history of the People’s Republic of China (PRC), the Cultural Revolution is frequently set apart as being a unique period — a particularly brutal, particularly chaotic, particularly disruptive “ten years of chaos” (shinian dongluan 十年动乱). The Cultural Revolution is also often regarded as a period of disruption to gender norms. Stories of female Red Guards with fierce faces berating their teachers have particular potency for their disruption to traditional power hierarchies. It is also often associated with the remarkable images of women working on electricity poles, driving tractors, or welding ships — the strong, fearless “Iron Girls” (tie guniang 铁姑娘) who had emerged in the 1950s when such working women became “everyday icons.” In keeping with the framework in which the Cultural Revolution is an exceptional period, these images and the gender ideology they promoted are also taken as aberrations to some imagined era of normalcy. And, women in the post-1979 Opening Up and Reform era have supposedly reclaimed their right to be real (delicate) women. This chapter argues that the Cultural Revolution was not as aberrant in its gender ideology as is commonly accepted or constructed. Rather, in examining the post-Mao appraisal of the Cultural Revolution, I reveal the continuity in gender narratives where women signify the tension between social stability and instability…

The following sections are included:

• Introduction
• The CR and its Regional Variation in Inner Mongolia
• Impact of CR on Han–Mongol Relations
• “Personality Cult” of Ulanhu
• Ethnic Consciousness of (Inner) Mongols in the Post-CR Period
• Conclusion

The following sections are included:

• Introduction
• Institutional Trajectories
• Center-to-Regional Dispersion of China Studies
• Personal Trajectories: Inter-Institutional Personnel Shifts within Moscow and Peregrination for the Far East
• Intellectual Trajectories
• The Resurrection of Vladivostok Sinology in the 1960s and 1970s in the Wake of Sino-American Détente
• Genesis of the Novosibirsk Centre for Chinese Studies
• Brief Conclusion

The following sections are included:

• Introduction
• Locating the Research
• Approach
• Reflexive Debates on the Cusp of Change
• Transformative Ideas and Ethos for Change
• Closing Remarks

The following sections are included:

• Introduction
• Literature Review
• China Studies in Pre-World War II Hong Kong
• China Studies in Post-World War II Hong Kong
• China Watching Activities in Hong Kong
• Main Actors
• Byron S. J. Weng’s Development into a China Studies Academic
• Academic Infrastructure of China Studies
• Weng’s Research Conducted in Hong Kong
• The China’s Constitutional Research
• The Seventies Monthly and Weng
• The Actual Drafting of the Law
• Weng as a Person Who Pursues Freedom

The following sections are included:

• Introduction
• Sources and Methods
• Attacks on Britons by Red Guards
• The Diplomats at Work: An Exchange of Favors
• Reuters Correspondent Anthony Grey: A Scapegoat
• Closing Reflections

The following sections are included:

• Introduction
• Chairman Xi Jinping?
• Xi’s Early Childhood Experiences
• How Cultural Revolution Sculpted Xi’s Personality
• Political Caution Being Key to Xi’s Rise
• Xi’s “Low Profile” Style and Rise to Power
• The Tailpiece…
• No Succession Plan
• Conclusion

The following section is included:

• Index