Intellectuals in revolutionary China, 1921-1949 : leaders, heroes and sophisticates /

"Using memoirs, recollections and literary works that have only recently become available, Ip analyses Communist intellectuals' self-construction from the functional, emotional and aesthetic perspectives, and expands on how these historical agents fashioned the themes of Communist intellec...

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Main Author: Ip, Hung-yok, 1961-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : RoutledgeCurzon, 2005.
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Online Access: Full text (MFA users only)
ISBN:0203009932
9780203009932
9780415351652
0415351650
9786610224890
6610224897
9780203698495
0203698495
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
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.