Aminda Smith
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3880994 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Aminda Smith |
| PRENOMES | Aminda |
| SOBRENOME | Smith |
| ASSINATURA | SMITH A |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Michigan State University |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 9 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 3 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 9 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2012 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2023 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
Revolutionary Transformations
Using first-hand material from Chinese archives that are no longer open to researchers, and bringing together a leading team of international scholars, this volume is a major contribution to the study of the People's Republic of China. Calling into question existing narratives on the foundational decade of the PRC, these essays present a nuanced consideration of China in the 1950s by integrating two periods that are often considered separately: t…
Useful Bullshit
When I learned that Neil Diamant's much-awaited study on Chinese constitutions was titled Useful Bullshit, I wrongly assumed that, ever the cynic, Diamant would cast People's Republic of China (PRC) constitutions as useful only insofar as they were brazen and transparent efforts to garner legitimacy for communist rule. This common view is well summarized by a colleague in China, quoted in the introduction: “There's no point researching that usele…
Kuisong Yang. Eight Outcasts
After the Chinese Communists came to power in 1949, a certain petty thief was repeatedly detained for thought reform. Each time he was released, he returned to a life of crime. He was initially classified as wayward, then as a “bad element,” and eventually a “counterrevolutionary.” He received that last designation when he masqueraded as a government official and wrote to a radio program in Taiwan, requesting funds for anti-Communist resistance. …
Long Live the Mass Line! Errant Cadres and Post-Disillusionment PRC History
The first rule of PRC history might be “Never take the Chinese Communists at their word.” Early observers praised the CCP, but by the 1990s there was broad disillusionment among China scholars who increasingly believed that observable realities contradicted official claims. In the post-disillusionment era, that realization became a methodology; generations of students were trained to look for sources that exposed the truths the Party ostensibly s…
Building “New Shanghai”
This article explores the communist reconstruction project that transformed the famous Shanghai Racecourse into the complex of public space that now includes the Avenue of the People, People’s Square, and the People’s Park. It examines the case of the Shanghai horse racing track as an example of the larger Chinese Communist effort to embed political power into Shanghai’s physical space. By demolishing colonial-era landmarks and refashioning them …
The Dilemma of Thought Reform
This article explores the efforts of the early People’s Republic of China (PRC) to intern and reform beggars, prostitutes, and other socially marginalized individuals as important precursors to the post-1957 system of Reeducation through Labor. It links a case study of local practice in Beijing to central government discussions about policy formulation to trace a series of co-constituted changes in the practical methods associated with thought re…
Thought Reform and the Unreformable
This essay explores records from Beijing's efforts to intern and reform the city's "lumpenproletariat" after 1949. Connecting these reports to central government directives about national thought reform policy, I show that reeducators and their superiors discoursed in detail about the existence of resisters, who opposed and defied the government, but whom reformatory staff explicitly labeled as non-enemies. The case of Beijing reformatories sugge…
Remoulding minds in postsocialist China
Thought reform (or ‘brainwashing’, as its critics labelled it in the 1950s) has been the Communist Party's most direct and explicit effort to refashion Chinese people. Since 1949, China's government-run reeducation centres have been dedicated to the production of ideal citizens. The discourses those institutions have produced highlight significant changes in the way the state has imagined its model (and anti-model) subjects as the People's Republ…
Thought Reform and China's Dangerous Classes
Chapter 1: Finding a Place for the Lumpenproletariat: Vacillators and Rural Revolution Chapter 2: The People versus Their Enemies: Urban Reeducation and the Old Society Chapter 3: The Curriculum of Consciousness Raising: Low Consciousness and Mass Reeducation Chapter 4: The Laboring Masses: Voluntarism and the People Chapter 5: The People Stand Up: Resistance and Reform Conclusion Bibliography
Long Live the Mass Line! Errant Cadres and Post-Disillusionment PRC History
The first rule of PRC history might be “Never take the Chinese Communists at their word.” Early observers praised the CCP, but by the 1990s there was broad disillusionment among China scholars who increasingly believed that observable realities contradicted official claims. In the post-disillusionment era, that realization became a methodology; generations of students were trained to look for sources that exposed the truths the Party ostensibly s…
The Dilemma of Thought Reform
This article explores the efforts of the early People’s Republic of China (PRC) to intern and reform beggars, prostitutes, and other socially marginalized individuals as important precursors to the post-1957 system of Reeducation through Labor. It links a case study of local practice in Beijing to central government discussions about policy formulation to trace a series of co-constituted changes in the practical methods associated with thought re…
Thought Reform and the Unreformable
This essay explores records from Beijing's efforts to intern and reform the city's "lumpenproletariat" after 1949. Connecting these reports to central government directives about national thought reform policy, I show that reeducators and their superiors discoursed in detail about the existence of resisters, who opposed and defied the government, but whom reformatory staff explicitly labeled as non-enemies. The case of Beijing reformatories sugge…
Remoulding minds in postsocialist China
Thought reform (or ‘brainwashing’, as its critics labelled it in the 1950s) has been the Communist Party's most direct and explicit effort to refashion Chinese people. Since 1949, China's government-run reeducation centres have been dedicated to the production of ideal citizens. The discourses those institutions have produced highlight significant changes in the way the state has imagined its model (and anti-model) subjects as the People's Republ…
The Dilemma of Thought Reform
This article explores the efforts of the early People’s Republic of China (PRC) to intern and reform beggars, prostitutes, and other socially marginalized individuals as important precursors to the post-1957 system of Reeducation through Labor. It links a case study of local practice in Beijing to central government discussions about policy formulation to trace a series of co-constituted changes in the practical methods associated with thought re…
Thought Reform and the Unreformable
This essay explores records from Beijing's efforts to intern and reform the city's "lumpenproletariat" after 1949. Connecting these reports to central government directives about national thought reform policy, I show that reeducators and their superiors discoursed in detail about the existence of resisters, who opposed and defied the government, but whom reformatory staff explicitly labeled as non-enemies. The case of Beijing reformatories sugge…
Building “New Shanghai”
This article explores the communist reconstruction project that transformed the famous Shanghai Racecourse into the complex of public space that now includes the Avenue of the People, People’s Square, and the People’s Park. It examines the case of the Shanghai horse racing track as an example of the larger Chinese Communist effort to embed political power into Shanghai’s physical space. By demolishing colonial-era landmarks and refashioning them …
Long Live the Mass Line! Errant Cadres and Post-Disillusionment PRC History
The first rule of PRC history might be “Never take the Chinese Communists at their word.” Early observers praised the CCP, but by the 1990s there was broad disillusionment among China scholars who increasingly believed that observable realities contradicted official claims. In the post-disillusionment era, that realization became a methodology; generations of students were trained to look for sources that exposed the truths the Party ostensibly s…
Kuisong Yang. Eight Outcasts
After the Chinese Communists came to power in 1949, a certain petty thief was repeatedly detained for thought reform. Each time he was released, he returned to a life of crime. He was initially classified as wayward, then as a “bad element,” and eventually a “counterrevolutionary.” He received that last designation when he masqueraded as a government official and wrote to a radio program in Taiwan, requesting funds for anti-Communist resistance. …
Revolutionary Transformations
Using first-hand material from Chinese archives that are no longer open to researchers, and bringing together a leading team of international scholars, this volume is a major contribution to the study of the People's Republic of China. Calling into question existing narratives on the foundational decade of the PRC, these essays present a nuanced consideration of China in the 1950s by integrating two periods that are often considered separately: t…
Useful Bullshit
When I learned that Neil Diamant's much-awaited study on Chinese constitutions was titled Useful Bullshit, I wrongly assumed that, ever the cynic, Diamant would cast People's Republic of China (PRC) constitutions as useful only insofar as they were brazen and transparent efforts to garner legitimacy for communist rule. This common view is well summarized by a colleague in China, quoted in the introduction: “There's no point researching that usele…
Thought Reform and China's Dangerous Classes
Chapter 1: Finding a Place for the Lumpenproletariat: Vacillators and Rural Revolution Chapter 2: The People versus Their Enemies: Urban Reeducation and the Old Society Chapter 3: The Curriculum of Consciousness Raising: Low Consciousness and Mass Reeducation Chapter 4: The Laboring Masses: Voluntarism and the People Chapter 5: The People Stand Up: Resistance and Reform Conclusion Bibliography
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