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

Eddy U

Open Access Published by University of California Press 2019

Creating the Intellectual

Chinese Communism and the Rise of a Classification

Eddy U

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780520972827

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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.

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U Eddy :

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.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
List of Illustrations Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
Preface and Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	xiii
List of Abbreviations Publicly Available Download PDF	xix
1. Reexamining the Intellectual and Chinese Communism Open Access Download PDF	1
2. The Birth of a Class Open Access Download PDF	21
3. Visible Subjects in the Countryside Open Access Download PDF	42
4. The Self-Fulfilling Prophecy of a Registration Drive Open Access Download PDF	68
5. Classification and Organization in a School System Open Access Download PDF	92
6. An Open Struggle of Redefinition Open Access Download PDF	114
7. Ugly Intellectuals Everywhere Open Access Download PDF	135
8. The Intellectual and Chinese Society: From Past to Present Open Access Download PDF	160
Character Glossary Open Access Download PDF	173
Notes Open Access Download PDF	181
Bibliography Open Access Download PDF	197
Index Open Access Download PDF	221