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positions (2021) 29 (4): 759–782.
Published: 01 November 2021
...Sigrid Schmalzer Abstract Scholars of Mao-era history adopt a wide range of approaches to the selection and treatment of source material. Some scholars regard published sources as propaganda, and therefore as biased and unreliable. For many, archival sources are the gold standard; others question...
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positions (2024) 32 (3): 539–572.
Published: 01 August 2024
... the hostile attitude toward women in power (288). Official comparisons between Mao's wife and the female emperor never saw the light of day, nor did an iconography of Wu Zetian as a champion of women's right to power. Nevertheless, it is possible that Jiang Qing might have tried to reinvent the empress...
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View articletitled, Jiang Qing, the Iconic Anti-icon: Visual Dissection of Female Political Power in Post-<span class="search-highlight">Mao</span> People's Republic of China
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in A Changing Representation: “Personal Writing” in Artistic Intervention in Chinese Rural Communities
> positions: asia critique
Published: 01 August 2024
Figure 1 Still image from the opening credits of Mao Chenyu's Between Life and Death (2004).
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in A Changing Representation: “Personal Writing” in Artistic Intervention in Chinese Rural Communities
> positions: asia critique
Published: 01 August 2024
Figure 2 Structural drawing of Mao Chenyu's Paddy Film Farm ; see Mao's website, http://www.paddyfilm-farm.com (accessed May 20, 2020).
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in A Changing Representation: “Personal Writing” in Artistic Intervention in Chinese Rural Communities
> positions: asia critique
Published: 01 August 2024
Figure 3 Ximaojia Universe from the opening credits of Mao Chenyu's Paddy Film Farm ; see Mao's WeChat blog Paddyfilm-fp, https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/HFgJY5Oqafm-IAVei3zsFQ , February 3, 2023.
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in Jiang Qing, the Iconic Anti-icon: Visual Dissection of Female Political Power in Post-Mao People's Republic of China
> positions: asia critique
Published: 01 August 2024
Figure 1 Hartini Sukarno of Indonesia shaking hands with Mao Zedong and Jiang Qing. Renmin ribao , September 30, 1962.
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positions (2016) 24 (4): 789–812.
Published: 01 November 2016
...Nicholas de Villiers; Yongan Wu Zhang Bingjian's documentary Readymade (2008) focuses on the lives of two Mao Zedong impersonators in the People's Republic of China: Mr. Peng Tian, a forty-six-year-old farmer from Hunan Province enrolled in the performance art program of Beijing Film Academy...
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positions (1996) 4 (2): 381–414.
Published: 01 May 1996
...Xiaoqun Xu Copyright © 1996 by Duke University Press 1996 The Discourse on Love, Marriage, and Sexuality in Post-Mao China:
A Reading of the Journalistic Literature on Women
Xiaoqun Xu
Since the early 1980s a new genre of writing, called journalistic literature...
View articletitled, The Discourse on Love, Marriage, and Sexuality in Post-<span class="search-highlight">Mao</span> China: A Reading of the Journalistic Literature on Women
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positions (2011) 19 (3): 627–651.
Published: 01 August 2011
...Liu Kang Slavoj Žižek has recently written quite extensively on Mao and China. This article is a commentary on his writings. Tracing the genealogy of Western Marxism from Gramsci, Athusser, and Badiou to Žižek, I argue that Žižek's misreading of the Chinese Revolution, especially Mao's theory...
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positions (2011) 19 (3): 671–706.
Published: 01 August 2011
... is to imagine how this radical emancipatory will can be given a new expression in the forthcoming crisis of global capitalism. Copyright 2011 by Duke University Press 2011 Revolutionary Terror from Robespierre to Mao
Slavoj Žižek
“What Do You Want?”
In his Logique des mondes...
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positions (2005) 13 (3): 535–574.
Published: 01 August 2005
...Alessandro Russo Duke University Press 2005 The Conclusive Scene: Mao and the Red Guards in July 1968
Alessandro Russo
In the very early hours of July 28, 1968, some of the most famous figures
of the subjective turbulence that in the two previous...
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positions (2005) 13 (3): 663–668.
Published: 01 August 2005
...Anonymous Duke University Press 2005 Translated by Bruno Bosteels The Dialectical Mode: With Regard to Mao Zedong and
Problems of Strategy in China’s Revolutionary War
Anonymous
Mao Zedong has occupied us a lot; let us come back to this. Or, rather, let...
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positions (2021) 29 (4): 809–834.
Published: 01 November 2021
... anomalously, this normative standpoint insufficiently attends to the empirical specificities of economic activities of the Mao era. It does not take enough into account how China's socialist identity shaped the CCP's economic initiatives. Nor does it dig deep enough into how the geopolitical dynamics...
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positions (2003) 11 (2): 361–393.
Published: 01 May 2003
...Tina Mai Chen 2003 by Duke University Press 2003 Proletarian White and Working Bodies in Mao’s China
Tina Mai Chen
Infused with the spirit of May Fourth critique of the enfeebled Chinese
body politic of the past, a young Mao Zedong joined the chorus...
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positions (2011) 19 (3): 653–669.
Published: 01 August 2011
...Slavoj Žižek Replying to the critical remarks in “Poeticizing Revolution,” the text clarifies the topic of Mao Zedong's dialectics and of the possibility of radical social transformation today. It points out Mao's total misunderstanding of what Hegel meant by dialectical process: Mao's dialectics...
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positions (2024) 32 (2): 315–340.
Published: 01 May 2024
... writings and institutional critique, the author addresses how abstraction was repurposed for early post‐Mao China. Where institutional elites in Beijing regarded painterly abstraction with unease, owing to its continued associations with the bourgeois‐capitalist art worlds of Paris and New York...
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positions (2021) 29 (4): 869–894.
Published: 01 November 2021
... everyday life during the Mao period. Everyday life is historical, produced in different ways under different material conditions, structured and shaped by social forms in motion. Thus, it is not an analytical frame through which historians can view the real content of the Mao period underneath the thin...
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positions (2018) 26 (4): 781–815.
Published: 01 November 2018
...Emily Wilcox Contrary to the common perception that dance in Mao-era China was dominated by the importation and adaptation of Soviet ballet, examination of historical sources in corroboration with Chinese-language dance scholarship suggests that China’s pre–Cultural Revolution socialist period...
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positions (2023) 31 (2): 451–471.
Published: 01 May 2023
... that has come into being in the post-Mao era. Third, the fact that a large number of new worker writers are “borrowing” from the language and style of 1980s literature generates a productive relation between the critical spirit of that literature and the alienating conditions under which the new workers...
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positions (2019) 27 (4): 569–595.
Published: 01 November 2019
...Alexander C. Cook Mao’s most famous statement about postcolonial struggle came in response to the Congo Crisis of the 1960s, yet China’s understanding of and involvement in that conflict has been largely ignored. Based on briefly declassified archival sources and long-forgotten cultural works...
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