Overcoming class anxiety: the art of unintentional subversion in Mao's China

In this article, we study the unintended subversion of official ideology among ordinary people in Mao’s China by analyzing the everyday life represented in the letters of a Shanghai worker who sought to overcome political anxieties by turning the political rituals, symbols, and tropes to his ends wi...

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Authors: Li, Tian (Author) ; Huang, Yanjie (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group 2024
In: Politics, religion & ideology
Year: 2024, Volume: 25, Issue: 1, Pages: 1-20
Further subjects:B Cultural Revolution
B class struggle
B unintentional subversion
B Everyday Life
B Class anxiety
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