Daniel Leese
Biographic Data
| ID | 577493 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Daniel Leese |
| GIVEN NAMES | Daniel |
| FAMILY NAME | Leese |
| SIGNATURE | LEESE D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Freiburg |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6507-9552 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
How the "Red Star" Rose: Edgar Snow and Early Images of Mao Zedong
Book Review| December 01 2023 How the “Red Star” Rose: Edgar Snow and Early Images of Mao Zedong How the “Red Star” Rose: Edgar Snow and Early Images of Mao Zedong. By Ishikawa Yoshihiro. Translated by Joshua A. Fogel. Hong Kong: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press, 2022. xvi, 333 pp. ISBN: 9789882372078. Daniel Leese Daniel Leese University of Freiburg Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of Asian Studies 10872580…
Justice After Mao: The Politics of Historical Truth in the People's Republic of China
How can a dictatorship cope with the legacy of injustices and atrocities committed in its own name? This was one of the pressing questions the Chinese Communist Party leadership faced after the death of Mao Zedong in September 1976 and the end of the Cultural Revolution. This collection presents ground-breaking, original research to address the question of historical justice in the Party's attempt to survive politically despite rampant factionali…
The CCP Information Order in the Early People’s Republic of China: The Case of Xuanjiao Dongtai
After the founding of the People’s Republic of China, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) faced a major predicament. Since the new leadership did not allow free exchange of opinions, the problem was how to obtain reliable information. To deal with this dilemma, the CCP developed a two-pronged approach. Besides public news items that catered to the mobilizational aspects of party policies, it established secret feedback channels, the so-called neica…
Maos langer Schatten: Chinas Umgang mit der Vergangenheit
Wie kann sich eine Diktatur mit dem Erbe von Unrecht und Staatsverbrechen auseinandersetzen, die unter ihrer Herrschaft begangen wurden? Mit dieser Frage sah sich die Kommunistische Partei Chinas nach dem Tod Mao Zedongs im Jahr 1976 konfrontiert. Gestützt auf eine Vielzahl bislang unbekannter Dokumente entwirft der Freiburger Sinologe Daniel Leese ein breit angelegtes Panorama der chinesischen Politik und Gesellschaft in der kritischen Umbruchph…
Victims, Perpetrators, and the Role of Law in Maoist China: A Case-Study Approach
The relationship between politics and law in the early People’s Republic of China was highly contentious. Periods of intentionally excessive campaign justice intersected with attempts to carve out professional standards of adjudication and to offer retroactive justice for those deemed to have been unjustly persecuted. How were victims and perpetrators defined and dealt with during different stages of the Maoist era and beyond? How was law practic…
Die chinesische Kulturrevolution: 1966-1976
Die „Große Proletarische Kulturrevolution“ zählt zu den prägendsten Ereignissen der neueren chinesischen Geschichte. Die Auswirkungen dieses Kontinuitätsbruchs prägen die Kommunistische Partei Chinas und die chinesische Gesellschaft bis heute. Gegen die noch immer andauernde Mystifizierung der Kulturrevolution setzt Daniel Leese auf eine umfassende Historisierung. Anschaulich informiert er über Ursachen, Verlauf und Folgen. Im Fokus steht nicht n…
A single spark: Origins and spread of the Little Red Book in China
Comrade Mao Tse-tung is the greatest Marxist-Leninist of our era. He has inherited, defended and developed Marxism-Leninism with genius, creatively and comprehensively and has brought it to a higher and completely new stage.Preface to the first English edition
The Cult of Personality and Symbolic Politics
The article discusses characteristics and relevance of leader cults and symbolic politics within state socialism. After defining distinctive features of modern personality cults, the article traces trajectories of major cults over time and highlights interconnections, similarities, and differences between them. Cults served to centre emotions and loyalties in a personalized symbol and were part of a wider cosmos of symbolic politics, which played…
Mao Cult: Rhetoric and Ritual in China's Cultural Revolution
Although many books have explored Mao's posthumous legacy, none has scrutinized the massive worship that was fostered around him during the Cultural Revolution. This book is the first to do so. By analyzing secret archival documents, Daniel Leese traces the history of the cult within the Communist Party and at the grassroots level. The party leadership's original intention was to develop a prominent brand symbol, which would compete with the nati…
The Pitfalls of Demonisation – Mao: The Unknown Story and its Medial Repercussions
The Mao Cult as Communicative Space
The article discusses different ways of approaching the personality cult of Mao Zedong, former Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). It proposes to analyse the leader cult as a form of authoritarian political communication that affected both CCP politics and popular reaction. Intended as a loyalty‐creating device to ease the identification with the communist movement for its often illiterate supporters, the cult merged the success of the…
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The Pitfalls of Demonisation – Mao: The Unknown Story and its Medial Repercussions
The Mao Cult as Communicative Space
The article discusses different ways of approaching the personality cult of Mao Zedong, former Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). It proposes to analyse the leader cult as a form of authoritarian political communication that affected both CCP politics and popular reaction. Intended as a loyalty‐creating device to ease the identification with the communist movement for its often illiterate supporters, the cult merged the success of the…
Mao Cult: Rhetoric and Ritual in China's Cultural Revolution
Although many books have explored Mao's posthumous legacy, none has scrutinized the massive worship that was fostered around him during the Cultural Revolution. This book is the first to do so. By analyzing secret archival documents, Daniel Leese traces the history of the cult within the Communist Party and at the grassroots level. The party leadership's original intention was to develop a prominent brand symbol, which would compete with the nati…
The Cult of Personality and Symbolic Politics
The article discusses characteristics and relevance of leader cults and symbolic politics within state socialism. After defining distinctive features of modern personality cults, the article traces trajectories of major cults over time and highlights interconnections, similarities, and differences between them. Cults served to centre emotions and loyalties in a personalized symbol and were part of a wider cosmos of symbolic politics, which played…
A single spark: Origins and spread of the Little Red Book in China
Comrade Mao Tse-tung is the greatest Marxist-Leninist of our era. He has inherited, defended and developed Marxism-Leninism with genius, creatively and comprehensively and has brought it to a higher and completely new stage.Preface to the first English edition
Die chinesische Kulturrevolution: 1966-1976
Die „Große Proletarische Kulturrevolution“ zählt zu den prägendsten Ereignissen der neueren chinesischen Geschichte. Die Auswirkungen dieses Kontinuitätsbruchs prägen die Kommunistische Partei Chinas und die chinesische Gesellschaft bis heute. Gegen die noch immer andauernde Mystifizierung der Kulturrevolution setzt Daniel Leese auf eine umfassende Historisierung. Anschaulich informiert er über Ursachen, Verlauf und Folgen. Im Fokus steht nicht n…
Victims, Perpetrators, and the Role of Law in Maoist China: A Case-Study Approach
The relationship between politics and law in the early People’s Republic of China was highly contentious. Periods of intentionally excessive campaign justice intersected with attempts to carve out professional standards of adjudication and to offer retroactive justice for those deemed to have been unjustly persecuted. How were victims and perpetrators defined and dealt with during different stages of the Maoist era and beyond? How was law practic…
Maos langer Schatten: Chinas Umgang mit der Vergangenheit
Wie kann sich eine Diktatur mit dem Erbe von Unrecht und Staatsverbrechen auseinandersetzen, die unter ihrer Herrschaft begangen wurden? Mit dieser Frage sah sich die Kommunistische Partei Chinas nach dem Tod Mao Zedongs im Jahr 1976 konfrontiert. Gestützt auf eine Vielzahl bislang unbekannter Dokumente entwirft der Freiburger Sinologe Daniel Leese ein breit angelegtes Panorama der chinesischen Politik und Gesellschaft in der kritischen Umbruchph…
Justice After Mao: The Politics of Historical Truth in the People's Republic of China
How can a dictatorship cope with the legacy of injustices and atrocities committed in its own name? This was one of the pressing questions the Chinese Communist Party leadership faced after the death of Mao Zedong in September 1976 and the end of the Cultural Revolution. This collection presents ground-breaking, original research to address the question of historical justice in the Party's attempt to survive politically despite rampant factionali…
The CCP Information Order in the Early People’s Republic of China: The Case of Xuanjiao Dongtai
After the founding of the People’s Republic of China, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) faced a major predicament. Since the new leadership did not allow free exchange of opinions, the problem was how to obtain reliable information. To deal with this dilemma, the CCP developed a two-pronged approach. Besides public news items that catered to the mobilizational aspects of party policies, it established secret feedback channels, the so-called neica…
How the "Red Star" Rose: Edgar Snow and Early Images of Mao Zedong
Book Review| December 01 2023 How the “Red Star” Rose: Edgar Snow and Early Images of Mao Zedong How the “Red Star” Rose: Edgar Snow and Early Images of Mao Zedong. By Ishikawa Yoshihiro. Translated by Joshua A. Fogel. Hong Kong: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press, 2022. xvi, 333 pp. ISBN: 9789882372078. Daniel Leese Daniel Leese University of Freiburg Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of Asian Studies 10872580…
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