Title China's Soviet dream : propaganda, culture, and popular imagination / Yan Li

Published Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2018 ©2018

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Description 1 online resource (224 pages) : 19 black and white images, 1 table and 19 halftones Series Routledge contemporary China series Routledge contemporary China series. Contents Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of figures; Acknowledgements; Note on transliteration and translation; Introduction; PART I The avowed internationalism; 1 The propaganda of friendship; 2 One world, one language?; PART II The new outlook; 3 Urban landscapes and socialist architecture; 4 New clothes and socialist fashion; PART III The public and the private; 5 Soviet literature in 1950s China; 6 Soviet literature in China's Cultural Revolution; Afterword; Index Summary This book examines the introduction of Soviet socialist culture in the People's Republic of China, with a focus on the period of Sino-Soviet friendship in the 1950s. The vast state initiative to transplant Soviet culture into Chinese soil has conventionally been dismissed as a tool of propaganda and political indoctrination. However, this book demonstrates that this transnational engagement not only facilitated China's broader transition to socialist modernity but also generated unintended consequences that outlasted the propaganda. Drawing on archival findings, newspapers, magazines, media productions, and oral interview, the book delves into changes in Chinese popular imagination and everyday aesthetics contingent upon Soviet influence. It proposes a revisionist view of the Soviet impact on China, revealing that Soviet culture offered Chinese people the language and imagery to conceive of their future as a dream about material abundance, self-determination, and the pleasures of leisure and cultural enrichment. Written with a transnational, interdisciplinary, and thematic approach, this book is aimed at scholars and students in the fields of Sino-Soviet relations, international socialism, modern Chinese history, cultural studies, and mass communication. It will also be of interest to researchers seeking to understand the nature, significance, and repercussions of Sino-Soviet cultural engagement Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Socialism -- China -- History -- 20th century Socialist propaganda -- China HISTORY -- Europe -- Russia & the Former Soviet Union. HISTORY -- Modern -- 20th Century. POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- International. POLITICAL SCIENCE -- International Relations -- General. Socialist propaganda Civilization -- Soviet influences Diplomatic relations Socialism China -- Foreign relations -- Soviet Union Soviet Union -- Foreign relations -- China China -- Civilization -- Soviet influences Soviet Union -- Foreign relations. China Soviet Union Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9781315437255 1315437252 9781315437231 1315437236 9781315437248 1315437244 9781315437224 1315437228

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