Revolutionary Discourse In Mao's Republic
What does the Chinese Communist Revolution teach us about the relationship between political discourse and real experiences and events? This unique interpretation of the revolutionary process in China uses empirical evidence as well as concepts from contemporary cultural studies to probe this significant question. David Apter and Tony Saich base their analysis on recently available primary sources on party history, English- and Chinese-language accounts of the Long March and Yan'an period,...
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What does the Chinese Communist Revolution teach us about the relationship between political discourse and real experiences and events? This unique interpretation of the revolutionary process in China uses empirical evidence as well as concepts from contemporary cultural studies to probe this significant question. David Apter and Tony Saich base their analysis on recently available primary sources on party history, English- and Chinese-language accounts of the Long March and Yan'an period, and interviews with veterans and their relatives.Written by an eminent political theorist well seasoned in comparative development and an internationally recognized China scholar, and abounding in new approaches to central issues, this incisive analysis will be welcomed by social theorists and China scholars alike. Booknews Drawing heavily on interviews conducted in China 1986-89, traces how subversive and illegal texts were woven together into an inversionary discourse that contained both disjunctive ideas and a master narrative, and served as both the instigators and objects of struggle for the short-lived Chinese republic, 1936- 47. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
PrefaceAcknowledgments1Toward a Discourse Theory of Politics1IFictive Truths and Logical Inferences2Four Struggles333Three Stories694One Line107IIYanan as a Mobilization Space5The Surviving Yananites1416The Terrain on the Ground1847Yanan as a Revolutionary Simulacrum224IIIThe Power of Symbolic Capital8Exegetical Bonding and the Phenomenology of Confession2639Foucault's Paradox and the Politics of Contending Discourses294Appendix: Cadre Schools in the Shaan-Gan-Ning Border Region, 1935-1945335Notes337Index391
\ BooknewsDrawing heavily on interviews conducted in China 1986-89, traces how subversive and illegal texts were woven together into an inversionary discourse that contained both disjunctive ideas and a master narrative, and served as both the instigators and objects of struggle for the short-lived Chinese republic, 1936- 47. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)\ \
