Culture, Class, and Revolution in China's Turbulent Decade

A Cultural Revolution State of the Field

Bibliographic Data

ID12731840
AuthorsDenise Y Ho (Chinese University of Hong Kong, corresponding author)
Year2014
Volume12
Issue3
Pages226-238
Publication date2014-03-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueHistory Compass (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1478-0542 • E-ISSN: 1478-0542
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/hic3.12150
OpenAlexW2147153666
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited19

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

China · Class (philosophy · Cultural revolution · Epistemology · Modernization theory · Political science · Scholarship · Social science · Sociology · State (computer science · Variety (cybernetics · China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance · Chinese history and philosophy · Computer Science · Law · Philosophy · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies · Artificial Intelligence

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