Beschreibung:
Mobo Gao is Professor of Chinese Studies at the University of Adelaide and the author of Constructing China (Pluto, 2018), The Battle for China's Past (Pluto, 2008).
A controversial polemic countering modern revisionist narratives demonising the Mao regime.
Introduction 1. Debating the Cultural Revolution 2. Constructing History: Memories, Values and Identity* 3. Constructing History: Memoirs, Autobiographies and Biographies in Chinese 4. Mao, the Unknown Story: An Intellectual Scandal 5. Mao: the Known Story and the Logic of Denial 6. How a Medical Doctor Doctors History: A Case Study of Li Zhisui 7. Challenging the Hegemony: Contrary Narratives in the E-Media (I)-Mao and the Cultural Revolution 8. Challenging the Hegemony: Contrary Narratives in the E-Media (II)-the Mao Era 9. the Problem of Rural-Urban Divide in Pursuit of Modernity: Values and Attitudes 10. Battle of China's history: Seeing the Past from the Present Conclusion Truth and Belief Values of Socialism and China's Future Direction Notes Bibliography Index