Karl Gerth
Biographic Data
| ID | 391702 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Karl Gerth |
| GIVEN NAMES | Karl |
| FAMILY NAME | Gerth |
| SIGNATURE | GERTH K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California San Diego |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3341-8940 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Unending Capitalism: How Consumerism Negated China's Communist Revolution
What forces shaped the twentieth-century world? Capitalism and communism are usually seen as engaged in a fight-to-the-death during the Cold War. With the establishment of the People's Republic of China in 1949, the Chinese Communist Party aimed to end capitalism. Karl Gerth argues that despite the socialist rhetoric of class warfare and egalitarianism, Communist Party policies actually developed a variety of capitalism and expanded consumerism. …
Nara Dillon. Radical Inequalities: China’s Revolutionary Welfare State in Comparative Perspective
Growing up in Cold War America, we heard a common dismissal of communist countries such as China. Sure, they had equality. . . everyone was equally poor! Nara Dillon’s thorough and insightful study reveals how far this assessment was from the truth. Despite the stated goal of eliminating or, at the very least, greatly reducing long-standing income equality, the Chinese welfare state that was created in the wake of the Communist Revolution of 1949…
Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China, by Ezra F. Vogel
Journalists may write the first draft of Chinese history. But Harvard sociologist Ezra Vogel has written a close second. Only in the past decade or so have historians begun to explore the history of the People’s Republic of China (1949–). The first place to which urban historians turn is Vogel’s Canton under Communism, published in 1969 with limited access to primary sources, which remains one of the best histories of cities during the early year…
Compromising with Consumerism in Socialist China: Transnational Flows and Internal Tensions in 'Socialist Advertising
In the middle of the twentieth century, China’s transnational connections flowed through the interaction of two ideologies that throughout the post-war era were at times in direct competition: consumerism and communism. In industrializing countries and their colonies, consumerism had actually begun to take hold during the first third of the twentieth century, as the spread of thousands of new consumer goods, the proliferation of discussions about…
Consumption and Nationalism: China
In China, the politicization of consumption at the end of the nineteenth and start of the twentieth century became a key way in which intellectuals and politicians defined, and the general population experienced, nationalism. In China and worldwide, consumption has served as a battleground in the creation of the modern nation. This article traces the changing manifestations of these historical connections between consumption and nationalism acros…
Lifestyles of the Rich and Infamous: The Creation and Implications of China's New Aristocracy
This essay examines how the consumption of luxury goods and services in contemporary China has become a key way of defining membership in what Chinese popularly refer to as the 'new rich' (xin fu) or 'new aristocracy' (xin gui). During the Maoist era (1949-1976) and extending into the first decade of the Reform Era in China (1978-1988), political power bestowed modest material advantages. But now state officials can directly - or indirectly via t…
Entries
Selling Happiness: Calendar Posters and Visual Culture in Early-Twentieth-Century Shanghai . Ellen Johnston Laing
China Made: Consumer Culture and the Creation of the Nation
China Made: Consumer Culture and the Creation of the Nation
Chinese people should consume Chinese products! This slogan was the catchphrase of a movement in early twentieth-century China that sought to link consumption and nationalism by instilling a concept of China as a modern nation with its own national products. From fashions in clothing to food additives, from museums to department stores, from product fairs to advertising, this movement influenced all aspects of China's burgeoning consumer culture.…
The Chinese National Character: From Nationhood to Individuality
Incorporating recent findings by leading Southwest scholars as well as original research, this book takes a fresh new look at the history of Spanish missions in northern Mexico/the American Southwest during the 17th and 18th centuries. Far from a record of heroic missionaries, steadfast soldiers, and colonial administrators, it examines the experiences of the natives brought to live on the missions, and the ways in which the mission program attem…
Lifestyles of the Rich and Infamous: The Creation and Implications of China's New Aristocracy
This essay examines how the consumption of luxury goods and services in contemporary China has become a key way of defining membership in what Chinese popularly refer to as the 'new rich' (xin fu) or 'new aristocracy' (xin gui). During the Maoist era (1949-1976) and extending into the first decade of the Reform Era in China (1978-1988), political power bestowed modest material advantages. But now state officials can directly - or indirectly via t…
The Chinese National Character: From Nationhood to Individuality
Incorporating recent findings by leading Southwest scholars as well as original research, this book takes a fresh new look at the history of Spanish missions in northern Mexico/the American Southwest during the 17th and 18th centuries. Far from a record of heroic missionaries, steadfast soldiers, and colonial administrators, it examines the experiences of the natives brought to live on the missions, and the ways in which the mission program attem…
Compromising with Consumerism in Socialist China: Transnational Flows and Internal Tensions in 'Socialist Advertising
In the middle of the twentieth century, China’s transnational connections flowed through the interaction of two ideologies that throughout the post-war era were at times in direct competition: consumerism and communism. In industrializing countries and their colonies, consumerism had actually begun to take hold during the first third of the twentieth century, as the spread of thousands of new consumer goods, the proliferation of discussions about…
The Chinese National Character: From Nationhood to Individuality
Incorporating recent findings by leading Southwest scholars as well as original research, this book takes a fresh new look at the history of Spanish missions in northern Mexico/the American Southwest during the 17th and 18th centuries. Far from a record of heroic missionaries, steadfast soldiers, and colonial administrators, it examines the experiences of the natives brought to live on the missions, and the ways in which the mission program attem…
China Made: Consumer Culture and the Creation of the Nation
China Made: Consumer Culture and the Creation of the Nation
Chinese people should consume Chinese products! This slogan was the catchphrase of a movement in early twentieth-century China that sought to link consumption and nationalism by instilling a concept of China as a modern nation with its own national products. From fashions in clothing to food additives, from museums to department stores, from product fairs to advertising, this movement influenced all aspects of China's burgeoning consumer culture.…
Selling Happiness: Calendar Posters and Visual Culture in Early-Twentieth-Century Shanghai . Ellen Johnston Laing
Entries
Lifestyles of the Rich and Infamous: The Creation and Implications of China's New Aristocracy
This essay examines how the consumption of luxury goods and services in contemporary China has become a key way of defining membership in what Chinese popularly refer to as the 'new rich' (xin fu) or 'new aristocracy' (xin gui). During the Maoist era (1949-1976) and extending into the first decade of the Reform Era in China (1978-1988), political power bestowed modest material advantages. But now state officials can directly - or indirectly via t…
Consumption and Nationalism: China
In China, the politicization of consumption at the end of the nineteenth and start of the twentieth century became a key way in which intellectuals and politicians defined, and the general population experienced, nationalism. In China and worldwide, consumption has served as a battleground in the creation of the modern nation. This article traces the changing manifestations of these historical connections between consumption and nationalism acros…
Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China, by Ezra F. Vogel
Journalists may write the first draft of Chinese history. But Harvard sociologist Ezra Vogel has written a close second. Only in the past decade or so have historians begun to explore the history of the People’s Republic of China (1949–). The first place to which urban historians turn is Vogel’s Canton under Communism, published in 1969 with limited access to primary sources, which remains one of the best histories of cities during the early year…
Compromising with Consumerism in Socialist China: Transnational Flows and Internal Tensions in 'Socialist Advertising
In the middle of the twentieth century, China’s transnational connections flowed through the interaction of two ideologies that throughout the post-war era were at times in direct competition: consumerism and communism. In industrializing countries and their colonies, consumerism had actually begun to take hold during the first third of the twentieth century, as the spread of thousands of new consumer goods, the proliferation of discussions about…
Nara Dillon. Radical Inequalities: China’s Revolutionary Welfare State in Comparative Perspective
Growing up in Cold War America, we heard a common dismissal of communist countries such as China. Sure, they had equality. . . everyone was equally poor! Nara Dillon’s thorough and insightful study reveals how far this assessment was from the truth. Despite the stated goal of eliminating or, at the very least, greatly reducing long-standing income equality, the Chinese welfare state that was created in the wake of the Communist Revolution of 1949…
Unending Capitalism: How Consumerism Negated China's Communist Revolution
What forces shaped the twentieth-century world? Capitalism and communism are usually seen as engaged in a fight-to-the-death during the Cold War. With the establishment of the People's Republic of China in 1949, the Chinese Communist Party aimed to end capitalism. Karl Gerth argues that despite the socialist rhetoric of class warfare and egalitarianism, Communist Party policies actually developed a variety of capitalism and expanded consumerism. …
China (9 works) · Law (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · Politics (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Chinese history and philosophy (6 works) · Japanese History and Culture (6 works) · History (5 works) · Communism (4 works) · Consumerism (4 works)