| Description |
1 online resource (256 pages) |
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Routledge Contemporary China Series |
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Routledge contemporary China series.
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| Contents |
The will to land, the will to revolution: from the soil, down to earth -- The Long March: from a search for a promised land to a site of memory -- In search of a home(land), lost in revolution: the solo journeys of Xiao Hong and Ding Ling -- Dialectics of retreat and return: spatial imagination between the mainland and Taiwan in the 1950s -- The specters of revolution haunting China: phantasmatic space of the Cultural Revolution; Coda: cartography of revolution-The Entire Nation is Red |
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Appendix: list of Chinese charactersBibliography; Index |
| Summary |
"Regarding revolution as a spatial practice, this book explores modes of spatial construction in modern China through a panoramic overview of major Chinese revolutionary events and nuanced analysis of cultural representations. Examining the relationship between revolution, space, and culture in modern China the author takes five spatially significant revolutionary events as case studies - the territorial dispute between Russia and the Qing dynasty in 1892, the Land Reform in the 1920s, the Long March (1934-36), the mainland-Taiwan split in 1949, and the Cultural Revolution (1966-76) - and analyses how revolution constructs, conceives, and transforms space. Using materials associated with these events, including primarily literature, as well as maps, political treatises, historiography, plays, film, and art, the book argues that in addition to redirecting the flow of Chinese history, revolutionary movements operate in and on space in three main ways: maintaining territorial sovereignty, redefining social relations, and governing an imaginary realm."--Publisher's description |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Land use -- China -- 20th century
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Land use -- Social aspects -- China
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Land use
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Land use -- Social aspects
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| SUBJECT |
China -- History -- 20th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85024101
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China -- History -- Cultural Revolution, 1966-1976.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85024126
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| Subject |
China
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781317326113 |
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1317326113 |
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