商品簡介
Essays from 40 prominent scholars on key concepts in Chinese politics
Afterlives of Chinese Communism includes essays from over 40 world-renowned scholars in the China field, from different disciplines, and continents. It provides an indispensable guide for understanding how the intellectual legacies of the Mao era shape Chinese politics today. The volume addresses the question: what lessons does the Chinese Revolution have for leftist thinking in the present?
As a volume, the essays speak to each other by answering this question. Across the various approaches, there is a sensitivity to the potentials, enthusiasms, and resistances to domination that Maoist concepts once generated. Each essay provides an introduction to a concept or keyword in Chinese politics, its origins in the Mao era, uses in the present, and potential futures. Participating in an emerging conversation on the futures of communism, the edited volume is designed as an archive of the political vocabulary of Maoism, and a legend to the lost political cartographies of the past and any potential utopian futures.
作者簡介
Christian Sorace, Assistant Professor of Political Science at Colorado College. His research focuses on ideology, discourse, urbanization, and aesthetics. He is the author of Shaken Authority: China's Communist Party and the 2008 Sichuan Earthquake (Cornell University Press, 2017).
Ivan Franceschini, Marie Curie Fellow at the Australian Centre on China in the World, the Australian National University, and at Ca' Foscari University of Venice. His research focuses on Chinese labour and civil society. He is the author of several books, translations, and co-director of the documentary Dreamwork China.
Nicholas Loubere, Associate Senior Lecturer in the Study of Modern China at the Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies, Lund University. His research examines socio-economic development in rural China, with a particular focus on microcredit and the rural financial system.
