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Introduction / Jeremy Brown and Matthew D. Johnson
Everyday Life
The Grassroots
High Socialism
Part I. Crimes, Labels, and Punishment
1. How a “Bad Element” Was Made: The Discovery, Accusation, and Punishment of Zang Qiren / Yang Kuisong
A Bright Future
A Guilty Conscience
Historical Problems
Looking for Trouble
Alarmed but Unharmed
Falling In with the Wrong Lot
Confessing His Problems
Confronting His Past
A Failed Suicide Attempt
Pouring Out Beans from a Bamboo Tube
Reeducating a Nonpolitical “Bad Element” through Labor
The Road to Prison
2. Moving Targets: Changing Class Labels in Rural Hebei and Henan, 1960–1979 / Jeremy Brown
Remedial Democracy
Four Cleanups Policy and Revising Class Labels
Registration Forms and Class Files
Going Down
Going Up
Fighting an Unfavorable Change in Class Status
Removing Labels, Correcting Errors
3. An Overt Conspiracy: Creating Rightists in Rural Henan, 1957–1958 / Cao Shuji
A Failed First Attempt to Air Views in Tongbai County, Autumn 1957
Speaking Out in Tongbai, Winter 1957
Luring the Snakes out of Their Lair: How Rural People Became Rightists
Willingly Coming Out of the Lair: Those Who Sacrificed Themselves to Air Their Views
Opening One’s Heart to the Party
4. Revising Political Verdicts in Post-Mao China: The Case of Beijing’s Fengtai District / Daniel Leese
A Plethora of Problems
Case Revisions in Fengtai District
Part II. Mobilization
5. Liberation from the Loom? Rural Women, Textile Work, and Revolution in North China / Jacob Eyferth
Textiles and Women’s Work in Guanzhong
Cotton and the Socialist State
Women’s Work under Socialism
The Experience of Work under the Collectives
Revolution and Everyday Life
6. Youth and the “Great Revolutionary Movement” of Scientific Experiment in 1960s–1970s Rural China / Sigrid Schmalzer
State Vision: Science as Opportunity
State Vision: Youth as Intellectuals
State Vision: Science as Revolutionary
State Vision: Failure as the Mother of Success
Youth Experience: Science as Opportunity?
Youth Experience: Science as Revolutionary . . . and Romantic
Youth Experience: The Pain of Failure
Epilogue: Bourgeois Science? The Post-1978 Transformation of Youth and Science
7. Adrift in Tianjin, 1976: A Diary of Natural Disaster, Everyday Urban Life, and Exile to the Countryside / Sha Qingqing and Jeremy Brown
Surviving the Earthquake and Its Aftermath
Waiting to Leave for the Countryside
Tongshan in the Countryside
Part III. Culture and Communication
8. Beneath the Propaganda State: Official and Unofficial Cultural Landscapes in Shanghai, 1949–1965 / Matthew D. Johnson
State Culture at the Grassroots
Official Culture: The Institutional Perspective
Limits to Growth, Profit over Politics, and the Defiance of Cultural Management
The Great Leap Forward Crisis
The Resurgence of Unofficial Culture
Cultural Manias and Youth Culture: The Hong Kong Film Craze
Involution and Corruption in Projection Work
9. China’s “Great Proletarian Information Revolution” of 1966–1967 / Michael Schoenhals
1949–1966: Organization as “Spontaneous Counterrevolution”
August 1966: “It Is Right to Rebel against Reactionaries”
“Exchange of Intelligence”
Collecting and Processing Current Information
Sample Contents 1
Sample Contents 2
Dissemination
September 1967: Enforced Dissolution
Appendix: Five-Point Agreement
10. The Dilemma of Implementation: The State and Religion in the People’s Republic of China, 1949–1990 / Xiaoxuan Wang
State and Religion in Pre-1949 Ruian
Land Reform, the Conversion of Religious Space, and Resistance, 1949–1957
Intensified Coercion and the Clandestine Advance of Religion,1958–1978
The Boom of Religion and the Accommodative State
Part IV. Discontent
11. Radical Agricultural Collectivization and Ethnic Rebellion: The Communist Encounter with a “New Emperor” in Guizhou’s Mashan Region, 1956 / Wang Haiguang
Ethnic Relations in Mashan
How Collectivization Assailed Ethnic Minority Lifestyles
The “Empress Mother” Spreads Rumors That an Emperor Will Emerge
From Rumors of an Emperor to an Armed Uprising
Forcefully Suppressing the Uprising
Attempting a “Peaceful Resolution”
Temporary Resolutions
12. Caught between Opposing Han Chauvinism and Opposing Local Nationalism: The Drift toward Ethnic Antagonism in Xinjiang Society, 1952–1963 / Zhe Wu
Han Chauvinism and Its Opponents, 1952–1955
1956: Saifudin Azizi Strikes a Delicate Balance
Preludes to Conflict
1957: The Turning Point
From Attacking Rightists to Combating Local Nationalism
Rectification and Assimilation, 1958–1959
Local and Party Responses
Communizing and Desovietizing Xinjiang, 1958–1962
1962: The Ili-Tacheng Incident and an End to Moderation
Crisis and Aftermath
13. Redemptive Religious Societies and the Communist State, 1949 to the 1980s / S. A. Smith
The Survival of the Societies
The Appeal of the Societies
The Politics of the Societies
Perpetuating the Tradition
Epilogue: Mao’s China—Putting Politics in Perspective / Vivienne Shue
Politics in Command
The Dustbin of History
Ruling Agonistically and over Rough Social Terrain
Putting Politics in Perspective
Notes
Contributors
Acknowledgments
Index