Eddy U
Biographic Data
| ID | 77966 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Eddy U |
| GIVEN NAMES | U |
| FAMILY NAME | Eddy |
| SIGNATURE | U E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Davis |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Andrew G Walder, Civil War in Guangxi: The Cultural Revolution on China’s Southern Periphery
Good Samaritans” and Approaches of Resistance in the Cultural Revolution
Research on the Cultural Revolution focuses on agents of violence and their intentions, activities, and conflicts but pays little attention to resistance to the resulting aggression and oppression. I show that workers, rebels, Red Guards, and others served as “good Samaritans” who thwarted violence against “class enemies” and assuaged their suffering. I draw on studies of resistance and social interaction by James Scott, Michel de Certeau, Erving…
Creating the Intellectual: Chinese Communism and the Rise of a Classification
Creating the Intellectual redefines how we understand relations between intellectuals and the Chinese socialist revolution of the last century. Under the Chinese Communist Party, “the intellectual” was first and foremost a widening classification of individuals based on Marxist thought. The party turned revolutionaries and otherwise ordinary people into subjects identified as usable but untrustworthy intellectuals, an identification that profound…
Knowledge Acts in Modern China: Ideas, Institutions, and Identities
This volume explores the introduction of new systems of knowledge in China during the first half of the twentieth century. The individuals portrayed here illustrate how modern systems of thought gave life to social institutions and generated new social roles and identities in China’s tumultuous transition during the first half of the twentieth century. In particular, we track the formation of academic and professional disciplines that have repres…
Knowledge acts in modern China: Ideas, institutions, and identities
"This book examines as interrelated processes the reception of foreign systems of thought, the construction of modern academic and professional disciplines, and the emergence of new social identities in twentieth-century China after the fall of the imperial state and with the rise of political parties and mass nationalism"
Rise of Marxist Classes: Bureaucratic Classification and Class Formation in Early Socialist China
How did "capitalists", "petty bourgeoisie", and other class categories based on Marxist critiques of capitalism become highly visible in local society while communist regimes abolished capitalist institutions? Conventional approaches to class lack the necessary tools for unraveling such "Marxist classes", let alone their impact on class formation in the common sociological sense. I use Weber, Foucault, and others (together with a study of the eme…
What Was the Petty Bourgeoisie? Cultural Positioning and Reification of Marxist Classes in Early PRC Discourse
The early PRC discourse of the petty bourgeoisie was the intellectual foundation upon which embodied petty-bourgeois subjects appeared at every level of society. The discourse features three interwoven accounts, each founded on a synthesis of Marxian ideas and conventional and contemporary thinking. The national-developmental account reframes existing notions of class, nation-state, and utopia within a Marxist narrative of class struggle and pres…
Intellectuals and Alternative Socialist Paths in the Early Mao Years
The Rectification Campaign of 1957 prompted a vibrant debate about Chinese socialism. This debate contained three analytically distinct perspectives on the intellectual, each corresponding to a specific vision of socialist development. The “legislator” perspective, championed by college students, demanded for intellectuals the right to help to define socialism. Leading intellectuals sponsored the “reformer” view, which argued that intellectuals w…
Reifications of the intellectual: Representations, organization and agency in revolutionary China
How did 'intellectuals' evolve from a class of subjects in Marxian thoughts to highly visible populations under communism? Such 'reifications of the intellectual' have deeply affected subjectivity, conflict and organization, but received little attention in the political sociology of communism. This essay draws on research on classifications and social boundaries to address the objective and subjective foundations of the reifications and their im…
Dangerous Privilege: The United Front and the Rectification Campaign of the Early Mao Years
Why did otherwise savvy or cautious intellectuals put themselves at risk by attacking the dictatorial Chinese Communist state during the Rectification Campaign of 1957? This essay highlights the critical impact of the postrevolution institution of the united front. A primary tool for acquiring support of non-Party personnel, the official institution featured at the élite level a bundle of exclusive privilege and cultivated exemplary cooperation a…
Third Sister Liuand the Making of the Intellectual in Socialist China
Through an analysis ofThird Sister Liu, a popular musical of the early 1960s, this article illustrates how the Chinese Communist Party mobilized state and society to express disparaging ideas about the intellectual during the Great Leap Forward. The Chinese intellectual was not any specific social type, group, or individual, but a substrate upon which the party organized and promoted its vision and division of society. Official representations, o…
Entries
Reification of the Chinese Intellectual: On the Origins of the CCP Concept of Zhishifenzi
Research has largely overlooked the reification of the intellectual ( zhishifenzi) after the 1949 Communist revolution. Studying this major feature of Chinese socialism can illuminate the workings of the Chinese Communist Party, state-society relations, and the experience of so-called intellectuals. This article explores the social and ideological contexts that first nurtured the party’s concept of intellectuals. It focuses on the debate about th…
State Management of Careers, Workplace Conflict, and Regime Legitimacy in Socialist China
Recent research indicates that career mobility under Chinese Communist rule has been shaped by state political screening and shifts in official ideology. Drawing on Weber's concept of modern bureaucracy and a study of schoolteachers in the Mao era (1949–1976), this article suggests that within the workplace official control of careers engendered an inferior and heterogeneous corps of management personnel, a deep schism between management and the …
Leninist Reforms, Workplace Cleavages, and Teachers in the Chinese Cultural Revolution
Andrew Walder's 'neo-traditional' image of Chinese socialism has profoundly shaped understanding of China before market reform. It has also influenced the broader debate on the nature of 'actually existing socialisms.' Walder argues that the Communist state dominated the industrial workforce through the institutionalization of organized dependence and clientelism in the workplace. State-appointed management tightly controlled access to goods, ser…
The Hiring of Rejects: Teacher Recruitment and Crises of Socialism in the Early PRC Years
The official need to tackle urban unemployment and reform state establishments, together with unequal privileges granted by the state, formed the critical context for staff recruitment in the early People’s Republic of China. This article, which examines hiring in secondary schools in Shanghai, shows that none of the elements mentioned was aimed at the political or technical needs of work organizations. As a result, the organizations that fell on…
The Making of Zhishifenzi: The Critical Impact of the Registration of Unemployed Intellectuals in the Early PRC
Existing research on Chinese intellectuals naturalizes the category, which is a social construction whose membership, attributes and political significance stem from state and society interactions. Recounting an urban registration campaign for unemployed intellectuals, this article describes the critical moment in which the Communist Party institutionalized its definition of zhishifenzi and local tensions appeared between officials and intellectu…
Dangerous Privilege: The United Front and the Rectification Campaign of the Early Mao Years
Why did otherwise savvy or cautious intellectuals put themselves at risk by attacking the dictatorial Chinese Communist state during the Rectification Campaign of 1957? This essay highlights the critical impact of the postrevolution institution of the united front. A primary tool for acquiring support of non-Party personnel, the official institution featured at the élite level a bundle of exclusive privilege and cultivated exemplary cooperation a…
Reification of the Chinese Intellectual: On the Origins of the CCP Concept of Zhishifenzi
Research has largely overlooked the reification of the intellectual ( zhishifenzi) after the 1949 Communist revolution. Studying this major feature of Chinese socialism can illuminate the workings of the Chinese Communist Party, state-society relations, and the experience of so-called intellectuals. This article explores the social and ideological contexts that first nurtured the party’s concept of intellectuals. It focuses on the debate about th…
Intellectuals and Alternative Socialist Paths in the Early Mao Years
The Rectification Campaign of 1957 prompted a vibrant debate about Chinese socialism. This debate contained three analytically distinct perspectives on the intellectual, each corresponding to a specific vision of socialist development. The “legislator” perspective, championed by college students, demanded for intellectuals the right to help to define socialism. Leading intellectuals sponsored the “reformer” view, which argued that intellectuals w…
Reifications of the intellectual: Representations, organization and agency in revolutionary China
How did 'intellectuals' evolve from a class of subjects in Marxian thoughts to highly visible populations under communism? Such 'reifications of the intellectual' have deeply affected subjectivity, conflict and organization, but received little attention in the political sociology of communism. This essay draws on research on classifications and social boundaries to address the objective and subjective foundations of the reifications and their im…
The Hiring of Rejects: Teacher Recruitment and Crises of Socialism in the Early PRC Years
The official need to tackle urban unemployment and reform state establishments, together with unequal privileges granted by the state, formed the critical context for staff recruitment in the early People’s Republic of China. This article, which examines hiring in secondary schools in Shanghai, shows that none of the elements mentioned was aimed at the political or technical needs of work organizations. As a result, the organizations that fell on…
What Was the Petty Bourgeoisie? Cultural Positioning and Reification of Marxist Classes in Early PRC Discourse
The early PRC discourse of the petty bourgeoisie was the intellectual foundation upon which embodied petty-bourgeois subjects appeared at every level of society. The discourse features three interwoven accounts, each founded on a synthesis of Marxian ideas and conventional and contemporary thinking. The national-developmental account reframes existing notions of class, nation-state, and utopia within a Marxist narrative of class struggle and pres…
Third Sister Liuand the Making of the Intellectual in Socialist China
Through an analysis ofThird Sister Liu, a popular musical of the early 1960s, this article illustrates how the Chinese Communist Party mobilized state and society to express disparaging ideas about the intellectual during the Great Leap Forward. The Chinese intellectual was not any specific social type, group, or individual, but a substrate upon which the party organized and promoted its vision and division of society. Official representations, o…
Leninist Reforms, Workplace Cleavages, and Teachers in the Chinese Cultural Revolution
Andrew Walder's 'neo-traditional' image of Chinese socialism has profoundly shaped understanding of China before market reform. It has also influenced the broader debate on the nature of 'actually existing socialisms.' Walder argues that the Communist state dominated the industrial workforce through the institutionalization of organized dependence and clientelism in the workplace. State-appointed management tightly controlled access to goods, ser…
The Making of Zhishifenzi: The Critical Impact of the Registration of Unemployed Intellectuals in the Early PRC
Existing research on Chinese intellectuals naturalizes the category, which is a social construction whose membership, attributes and political significance stem from state and society interactions. Recounting an urban registration campaign for unemployed intellectuals, this article describes the critical moment in which the Communist Party institutionalized its definition of zhishifenzi and local tensions appeared between officials and intellectu…
The Hiring of Rejects: Teacher Recruitment and Crises of Socialism in the Early PRC Years
The official need to tackle urban unemployment and reform state establishments, together with unequal privileges granted by the state, formed the critical context for staff recruitment in the early People’s Republic of China. This article, which examines hiring in secondary schools in Shanghai, shows that none of the elements mentioned was aimed at the political or technical needs of work organizations. As a result, the organizations that fell on…
State Management of Careers, Workplace Conflict, and Regime Legitimacy in Socialist China
Recent research indicates that career mobility under Chinese Communist rule has been shaped by state political screening and shifts in official ideology. Drawing on Weber's concept of modern bureaucracy and a study of schoolteachers in the Mao era (1949–1976), this article suggests that within the workplace official control of careers engendered an inferior and heterogeneous corps of management personnel, a deep schism between management and the …
Leninist Reforms, Workplace Cleavages, and Teachers in the Chinese Cultural Revolution
Andrew Walder's 'neo-traditional' image of Chinese socialism has profoundly shaped understanding of China before market reform. It has also influenced the broader debate on the nature of 'actually existing socialisms.' Walder argues that the Communist state dominated the industrial workforce through the institutionalization of organized dependence and clientelism in the workplace. State-appointed management tightly controlled access to goods, ser…
Entries
Reification of the Chinese Intellectual: On the Origins of the CCP Concept of Zhishifenzi
Research has largely overlooked the reification of the intellectual ( zhishifenzi) after the 1949 Communist revolution. Studying this major feature of Chinese socialism can illuminate the workings of the Chinese Communist Party, state-society relations, and the experience of so-called intellectuals. This article explores the social and ideological contexts that first nurtured the party’s concept of intellectuals. It focuses on the debate about th…
Third Sister Liuand the Making of the Intellectual in Socialist China
Through an analysis ofThird Sister Liu, a popular musical of the early 1960s, this article illustrates how the Chinese Communist Party mobilized state and society to express disparaging ideas about the intellectual during the Great Leap Forward. The Chinese intellectual was not any specific social type, group, or individual, but a substrate upon which the party organized and promoted its vision and division of society. Official representations, o…
Dangerous Privilege: The United Front and the Rectification Campaign of the Early Mao Years
Why did otherwise savvy or cautious intellectuals put themselves at risk by attacking the dictatorial Chinese Communist state during the Rectification Campaign of 1957? This essay highlights the critical impact of the postrevolution institution of the united front. A primary tool for acquiring support of non-Party personnel, the official institution featured at the élite level a bundle of exclusive privilege and cultivated exemplary cooperation a…
Intellectuals and Alternative Socialist Paths in the Early Mao Years
The Rectification Campaign of 1957 prompted a vibrant debate about Chinese socialism. This debate contained three analytically distinct perspectives on the intellectual, each corresponding to a specific vision of socialist development. The “legislator” perspective, championed by college students, demanded for intellectuals the right to help to define socialism. Leading intellectuals sponsored the “reformer” view, which argued that intellectuals w…
Reifications of the intellectual: Representations, organization and agency in revolutionary China
How did 'intellectuals' evolve from a class of subjects in Marxian thoughts to highly visible populations under communism? Such 'reifications of the intellectual' have deeply affected subjectivity, conflict and organization, but received little attention in the political sociology of communism. This essay draws on research on classifications and social boundaries to address the objective and subjective foundations of the reifications and their im…
What Was the Petty Bourgeoisie? Cultural Positioning and Reification of Marxist Classes in Early PRC Discourse
The early PRC discourse of the petty bourgeoisie was the intellectual foundation upon which embodied petty-bourgeois subjects appeared at every level of society. The discourse features three interwoven accounts, each founded on a synthesis of Marxian ideas and conventional and contemporary thinking. The national-developmental account reframes existing notions of class, nation-state, and utopia within a Marxist narrative of class struggle and pres…
Knowledge Acts in Modern China: Ideas, Institutions, and Identities
This volume explores the introduction of new systems of knowledge in China during the first half of the twentieth century. The individuals portrayed here illustrate how modern systems of thought gave life to social institutions and generated new social roles and identities in China’s tumultuous transition during the first half of the twentieth century. In particular, we track the formation of academic and professional disciplines that have repres…
Knowledge acts in modern China: Ideas, institutions, and identities
"This book examines as interrelated processes the reception of foreign systems of thought, the construction of modern academic and professional disciplines, and the emergence of new social identities in twentieth-century China after the fall of the imperial state and with the rise of political parties and mass nationalism"
Rise of Marxist Classes: Bureaucratic Classification and Class Formation in Early Socialist China
How did "capitalists", "petty bourgeoisie", and other class categories based on Marxist critiques of capitalism become highly visible in local society while communist regimes abolished capitalist institutions? Conventional approaches to class lack the necessary tools for unraveling such "Marxist classes", let alone their impact on class formation in the common sociological sense. I use Weber, Foucault, and others (together with a study of the eme…
Creating the Intellectual: Chinese Communism and the Rise of a Classification
Creating the Intellectual redefines how we understand relations between intellectuals and the Chinese socialist revolution of the last century. Under the Chinese Communist Party, “the intellectual” was first and foremost a widening classification of individuals based on Marxist thought. The party turned revolutionaries and otherwise ordinary people into subjects identified as usable but untrustworthy intellectuals, an identification that profound…
Andrew G Walder, Civil War in Guangxi: The Cultural Revolution on China’s Southern Periphery
Good Samaritans” and Approaches of Resistance in the Cultural Revolution
Research on the Cultural Revolution focuses on agents of violence and their intentions, activities, and conflicts but pays little attention to resistance to the resulting aggression and oppression. I show that workers, rebels, Red Guards, and others served as “good Samaritans” who thwarted violence against “class enemies” and assuaged their suffering. I draw on studies of resistance and social interaction by James Scott, Michel de Certeau, Erving…
Chinese history and philosophy (15 works) · Law (15 works) · Political science (15 works) · Sociology (14 works) · Politics (12 works) · China (11 works) · Communism (11 works) · China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance (9 works) · Law (8 works) · Political economy (8 works)