...Young Ji Lee This essay examines Maoist China and its deep engagement with local/global capitalism during the Cold War period. It analyzes how the socialist realist utopian images of self-reliant Dazhai, a model village in Shanxi, contributed to the domestic and international image of Maoist China...

... to the Maoist past. 2 Gail Hershatter, Aminda Smith, and others have pointed out that “taking Maoism seriously” does not in any way mean supporting the state. If one assumes that taking Maoism seriously ends up supporting the state, one not only does a disservice to history but also does a huge...

... about China that emphasizes China’s connection to the Soviet Union, while occluding the postcolonial and anti-imperialist dimensions of Chinese socialist culture, including its connection to the Third World movement of the late 1950s and early 1960s. This occlusion of postcolonial dimensions of Maoist...

...Covell F. Meyskens Abstract This article examines two theoretical frameworks used to evaluate Maoist development. The first is based on neoclassical economic theory, and the second is rooted in the idea that the Chinese Communist Party made China into a state capitalist regime. Both...

..., this article touches on the divergent roots of the women’s liberation movement and western feminism, the Maoist era’s negation of femininity, and the lingering patriarchal structure of art institutions. It was only after a series of groundbreaking exhibitions exploring the female psyche in the 1990s that women...

... relations and internationally circulating PRC-produced cultural material that articulated feminist ideals as part of Afro-Asian-Latin American solidarity. This article returns to well-known texts of Maoist China to rethink state-produced Chinese feminism as a Cold War framework and gendered globality...

... veneer of Maoist high politics and its categories. This article therefore argues that everyday life, far from a sphere resisting the impositions and dictates of the state, is fully implicated in the political-economic structuring of society. This is a call to not simply replace an earlier social science...

... unmaking of the Maoist peasant classes entails the emaciation of rural populations, as Yan Hairong has described, through the intensified extraction and exploitation of the migrant classes. The tu er dai is a place-based group of former peasants who have quickly elevated to the rentier class thanks...

... challenge historical narratives of a smooth transition from the Maoist collective-oriented and public-spirited hero to the private and individualistic new subject of the Reform era. The mobilization of ecological labor instantiates a distinct formation of neosocialist desires and subjectivities oriented...

..., this article shows how Wu performed an aesthetic intervention through writing, utilizing scientism and Maoist logic to filter abstraction through the still‐hegemonic language of radical materialism, which allowed abstraction to take hold as a renewed term of engagement in the early post‐Mao art world by 1983...

... was not yet available, Jiang Qing served as an “iconic anti-iconic” of women in politics under state socialism. Acknowledging the importance of Jiang Qing as a historical figure in Maoist China, this article analyzes how post–Cultural Revolution caricatures of her provide us with an understanding...

...Tonglin Lu As China emerges from its Maoist isolationism and rapidly integrates into the global capitalist market, it is no longer possible to preserve the rigid boundaries between these sides — a theorist with international standing can no longer grasp today's world while closing his (or her) eyes...

..., the idea of the imperial metaphor points to an intimate relation between religious practices and the state that merits attention. This article examines how the state—not only the long-defunct imperial bureaucracy but also the Maoist state—is imagined as a central provider of cosmic order in religious...

... the theme: What is Maoist politics? This meeting has been a great success. We have proof that there exists a revolutionary Maoist current of public opinion. I. In Europe the Question of the Revolution is the Order of the Day Our aim...

... to think about the catastrophes of the Cultural Revolution for a history of our time. A year prior to “Love,” in Le Marxiste-Leniniste, a journal produced by Badiou and his Parisian Maoist colleagues in the Group for the Foundation of the Union...

... might be learned from different generations and types of scholarship, including those of social scientists. 3 We need all the help we can get. This is where Brown and Johnson ( 2015 ) entered with their quest for something “more than this.” Under Maoist epistemology, what will be missing about...

...) Le Perroquet: Quinzomadaire d’opinion (1981–90) Feuille Foudre: Journal pour l’intervention marxiste-léniniste dans l’art et la culture, new series subtitled Revue trimestrielle du Groupe Foudre, Groupe maoïste d’intervention dans l’art et la...

.... Particularity is only enlightening when it is united with the universal, and the universal is only universal because of its relationship to many particulars. In part because of the influence of Maoist thought around the world, including in academia, the past several decades of historical scholarship about...

..., the University of Vincennes. For the Maoist that I was, Deleuze, as the philosophical inspiration for what we called the “anarcho-desirers,” was an enemy all the more formidable for being internal to the “movement” and for the fact that his...

.... It seems but a small leap from these early comments by Mao to the images of socialist realist art dominant in 1950s and 1960s China. In poster art of the Maoist period, male and female bodies acquired biologically unrealistic proportions as specific...