Mao's New World by Chang-Tai Hung

Mao's New World by Chang-Tai Hung

Mao's New World examines how Mao Zedong and senior Party leaders transformed the PRC into a propaganda state in the first decade of their rule (1949-1959).

Mao's New World is a series of illuminating essays on the culture of the early People’s Republic

* New York Review of Books *

Chang-tai Hung's study of political culture in China in the 1950s is rich in detailed insights that complement his earlier treatment of the entwined subjects of politics and culture in War and Popular Culture: Resistance in Modern China, 1937–1945.

* China Journal *

Hung's meticulous research reveals the struggles over values and power behind the granite surface of revolutionary China’s new look.

* Foreign Affairs *

The book contains much comparison of Mao's China with Joseph Stalin’s Russia, Adolf Hitler’s Germany, and the early years of the French Revolution. This authoritative survey of an important subject will be welcome to students of the period.

* Journal of Interdisciplinary History *

The book makes a definite contribution to our understanding of the dynamics of cultural politics and political culture during the PRC's formative era.

* American Historical Review *

This study of the newly established regime in China in the early 1950s will appeal to a wide range of readers. Hung is particularly good at delineating the contested areas of modernity and tradition that were crucial in creating a new national identity.

* China Quarterly *

Chang-tai Hung is Chair Professor of Humanities Emeritus at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. He is the author of War and Popular Culture: Resistance in Modern China, 1937–1945 and Going to the People: Chinese Intellectuals and Folk Literature, 1918–1937.

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ISBN 13	9781501713538
ISBN 10	1501713531
Title	Mao's New World
Author	Chang-Tai Hung
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Cornell University Press
Year published	2017-02-28
Number of pages	368
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