Creating the Intellectual

Chinese Communism and the Rise of a Classification

Eddy U

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English

California Uni Pr Trade
30 April 2019

History; Asian history; Sociology; Marxism & Communism; Socialism & left-of-centre democratic ideologies

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Creating the Intellectual redefines how we understand relations between intellectuals and the Chinese socialist revolution of the last century. Under the Chinese Communist Party, ""the intellectual"" was first and foremost a widening classification of individuals based on Marxist thought. The party turned revolutionaries and otherwise ordinary people into subjects identified as usable but untrustworthy intellectuals, an identification that profoundly affected patterns of domination, interaction, and rupture within the revolutionary enterprise. Drawing on a wide range of data, Eddy U takes the reader on a journey that examines political discourses, revolutionary strategies, rural activities, urban registrations, workplace arrangements, organized protests, and theater productions. He lays out in colorful detail the formation of new identities, forms of organization, and associations in Chinese society. The outcome is a compelling picture of the mutual constitution of the intellectual and the Chinese socialist revolution, the legacy of which still affects ways of seeing, thinking, acting, and feeling in what is now a globalized China."

By: Eddy U
Imprint: California Uni Pr Trade
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 15mm
Weight: 363g
ISBN: 9780520303690
ISBN 10: 0520303695
Pages: 247
Publication Date: 30 April 2019
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

List of Illustrations Preface and Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations 1. Reexamining the Intellectual and Chinese Communism 2. The Birth of a Classification 3. Visible Subjects in the Countryside 4. The Self-Fulfilling Prophecy of a Registration Drive 5. Classification and Organization in a School System 6. An Open Struggle of Redefinition 7. Ugly Intellectuals Everywhere 8. The Intellectual and Chinese Society: From Past to Present Character Glossary Notes Bibliography Index

Eddy U is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Davis. He is the author of Disorganizing China: Counter-Bureaucracy and the Decline of Socialism.

Reviews for Creating the Intellectual: Chinese Communism and the Rise of a Classification

This well-researched and well-argued book makes a significant contribution to scholarship and will appeal to a wide audience in the China field, including graduate students of history, politics, sociology, and comparative communist studies. * The China Quarterly * [A]n illuminating approach, which shifts the study of intellectuals from the study of a social group to the construction of the concept itself . . . * Modern Chinese Literature and Culture *