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Author Blecher, Marc J., author.

Title Class and the Communist Party of China, 1921-1978 : revolution and social change / Marc Blecher, David S G Goodman, Yingjie Guo, Jean-Louis Rocca, Tony Saich
Published Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2022
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Contents 1. The CCP⁰́₉s Shifting Class Discourse: The Objectivity, Subjectivity and Utility of ClassYingjie Guo2. Learning to Live with Social Change: The Communist Party of China, Class and MobilisationDavid S G Goodman3. Between Revolution and Reform: Class, Class Struggle, and Land Redistribution Yingjie Guo 4. The Communist Party of China, Working Class and Social Change, 1920-1949 Marc Blecher5. Class as a Political Tool in Rural China: The Middle Peasant in the War of Resistance to Japan, 1937-1945 David S G Goodman6. Radical Politics and the apotheosis of the working class, 1949-1978 Marc Blecher7. Emergence without settling: the trajectory of the Chinese middle class from 1949 to the 1980s Jean-Louis Rocca8. The Dominant Class in a Changing Polity: Transformation and InstitutionalisationDavid S G Goodman
Summary "Examining the interaction between the Communist Party of China [CCP] and specific social categories (including peasants, workers, the middle classes and the dominant class), with a focus on class and class discourse, this volume analyses the CCP's impact on social change in China between 1921-1978. By exploring the CCP's evolving discourse of class this book demonstrates that, while class has retained its centrality, its meaning has been re-articulated from an ideological-political tool to a less meaningful signifier, though always used instrumentality. By examining the impact of the CCP's policies and discourse surrounding class, it also reveals how its own policies since 1921 have shaped the CCP's current (2021) perspectives on class and stratification. This volume through an analysis of economic, political, and cultural inequalities in Chinese society even after 1949, also reveals the emergence of a diverse and often overlooked middle class in Chinese society during the 1950s. Delivering a detailed analysis of how the CCP has developed its practical approaches to class and mobilisation, this study will be of interest to students and scholars of Chinese Politics, Chinese History, Asian Politics and Asian studies"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on February 28, 2022)
Subject Zhongguo gong chan dang -- Membership
SUBJECT Zhongguo gong chan dang fast
Subject Social classes -- China -- History -- 20th century
Social stratification -- China -- History -- 20th century
Social change -- China -- History -- 20th century
HISTORY / Asia / China
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Classes
Membership requirements
Social change
Social classes
Social stratification
China
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Goodman, David S. G., author.
Guo, Yingjie, 1957- author.
Rocca, Jean-Louis (Jean-Louis Laurent), author.
Saich, Tony, author.
LC no. 2021044823
ISBN 9781003254898
1003254896
9781000545630
1000545636
9781000545616
100054561X