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Culture, Class, and Revolution in China's Turbulent Decade: A Cultural Revolution State of the Field[Note 1. Special thanks to Yang Peiming of the Shanghai Propaganda ...]
Author(s) -
Ho Denise Y.
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
history compass
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.121
H-Index - 1
ISSN - 1478-0542
DOI - 10.1111/hic3.12150
Subject(s) - china , cultural revolution , modernization theory , scholarship , class (philosophy) , state (computer science) , variety (cybernetics) , sociology , political science , social science , epistemology , artificial intelligence , law , philosophy , computer science , algorithm
This article surveys the recent scholarship on China's Cultural Revolution (1966–1976) from a variety of disciplines. It selects three keywords – culture, class, and revolution – and shows how contemporary research has reframed our understanding of each concept. Studies of culture argue that Cultural Revolution culture was an integral part of China's 20th century project of modernization, examinations of class challenge the role of class status in explaining action while offering new frameworks for understanding class, and analyses of the “revolution” in the Cultural Revolution question how we locate it within the history of 20th century China.