Propaganda and Culture in Mao's China

Deng Tuo and the intelligentsia

Bibliographic Data

ID19978832
AuthorsTimothy Cheek (0000-0003-3812-663X, corresponding author)
Year1997
Pages390
Publication date1997-12-18
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenuePropaganda and culture in Mao's China (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherOxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198290667.001.0001
OpenAlexW2481482704
Open LibraryOL662330M
ISBN9780198290667
LanguageEN
Citations received24

The key role of intellectuals in Mao's China has confounded Western scholars. Were they potential dissidents or actual servants of Chinese communism? The Chinese Communist Party could not have taken over China or governed it without a coalition of forces that included the intellectuals who articulated its goals and administered its complex bureaucracy. Deng Tuo (1912–66) — founding editor of People's Daily, accomplished traditional scholar, and critical commentator on political issues — has served as an example of this confusion. His life illustrates an experience of intellectual service in Mao's China that contributes to our understanding of the rise, successes, and major crises of Chinese Marxism in the 20th century. It also introduces us to the world that produced the current generation of intellectual leaders in China. This biography is a social history of intellectuals as agents in China's socialist revolution. It places Deng Tuo's writings and ideas in the rich context of his social experience as a member of the Communist bureaucracy and as an elite artist and aesthete. The tension between service to politics and service to culture was ultimately disastrous for Deng and for China's revolution: his ghost haunts the halls of power in Beijing today

Beijing · Biography · Bureaucracy · China · Communism · Context (archaeology) · Economic history · Elite · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Power (physics) · Sociology · Chinese history and philosophy · History · Law · 1949-1976 · 20th century · Communist Propaganda · Intellectual life · Journalists · politics and government · Propaganda, communist · Teng Tʻo

Tools

Open DOI