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Banished to the Great Northern Wilderness Political Exile and Re-education in Mao’s China

Wang Ning
Innbundet / 2017 / Engelsk

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780774832236
Publisert
2017
Utgiver
Vendor
University of British Columbia Press
Vekt
560 gr
Høyde
229 mm
Bredde
152 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
300

Forfatter
Wang Ning

Om bidragsyterne

Ning Wang is an associate professor in the History Department at Brock University. Previously, he spent ten years working in a Communist Party history research institute in China.

Banished to the Great Northern Wilderness Political Exile and Re-education in Mao’s China

Wang Ning
Innbundet / 2017 / Engelsk
Wang Ning
Innbundet / 2017 / Engelsk
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Wang Ning has presented us with an extremely rich study of <em>beidahuang</em>, and the transparency of his deployment of sources, as well as his acknowledgement of their limits... ensures this book will remain relevant and valuable in the long term.

- Dayton Lekner, University of Melbourne, PRC History Review, No. 3

<p>Wang’s exploration of political exiles in Mao’s China incorporates his exhaustive research into a truly beautiful narrative, full of individual voices… raw and moving … <i>Banished to the Great Northern Wilderness</i> [is] indispensable reading for anyone who wants to understand the history of the People’s Republic of China</p>

- Aminda Smith, Michigan State University, Historical Studies in Education

<p>Seen through a wider lens, Ning Wang’s work inspires us to rethink thought and labour reform in China as part of a larger global history that continues to evolve.</p>

- Ulug Kuzuoglu, Columbia University, Pacific Affairs, Volume 91, No. 4

Following Mao Zedong’s Anti-Rightist Campaign of 1957–58, Chinese intellectuals were subjected to “re-education” by the state. In Banished to the Great Northern Wilderness, Ning Wang draws on labour farm archives, interviews, and memoirs to provide a remarkable look at the suffering and complex psychological world of banished Beijing intellectuals. Wang’s use of these newly uncovered Chinese-language sources challenges the concept of the intellectual as renegade martyr – showing how exiles often declared allegiance to the state for self-preservation. While Mao’s campaign victimized the banished, many of those same people also turned against their comrades. Wang describes the ways in which the state sought to remould the intellectuals, and he illuminates the strategies the exiles used to deal with camp officials and improve their chances of survival.
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Through newly accessed labour farm archives and recently uncovered Chinese-language sources, this book brings to life the experience of political exiles in Mao’s China.
This is the best scholarly book I’ve read about the experiences of those banished to penal camps in Mao’s China. Wang reveals the dynamic interplay between rightists, camp guards, camp officials, and local and central authorities. He also illuminates the long-term human toll of banishment in all of its complexity.
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A remarkable look into the complex psychological world of intellectuals banished to labour camps by Mao.

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Wang Ning has presented us with an extremely rich study of <em>beidahuang</em>, and the transparency of his deployment of sources, as well as his acknowledgement of their limits... ensures this book will remain relevant and valuable in the long term.

- Dayton Lekner, University of Melbourne, PRC History Review, No. 3

<p>Wang’s exploration of political exiles in Mao’s China incorporates his exhaustive research into a truly beautiful narrative, full of individual voices… raw and moving … <i>Banished to the Great Northern Wilderness</i> [is] indispensable reading for anyone who wants to understand the history of the People’s Republic of China</p>

- Aminda Smith, Michigan State University, Historical Studies in Education

<p>Seen through a wider lens, Ning Wang’s work inspires us to rethink thought and labour reform in China as part of a larger global history that continues to evolve.</p>

- Ulug Kuzuoglu, Columbia University, Pacific Affairs, Volume 91, No. 4

Following Mao Zedong’s Anti-Rightist Campaign of 1957–58, Chinese intellectuals were subjected to “re-education” by the state. In Banished to the Great Northern Wilderness, Ning Wang draws on labour farm archives, interviews, and memoirs to provide a remarkable look at the suffering and complex psychological world of banished Beijing intellectuals. Wang’s use of these newly uncovered Chinese-language sources challenges the concept of the intellectual as renegade martyr – showing how exiles often declared allegiance to the state for self-preservation. While Mao’s campaign victimized the banished, many of those same people also turned against their comrades. Wang describes the ways in which the state sought to remould the intellectuals, and he illuminates the strategies the exiles used to deal with camp officials and improve their chances of survival.
Les mer
Through newly accessed labour farm archives and recently uncovered Chinese-language sources, this book brings to life the experience of political exiles in Mao’s China.
This is the best scholarly book I’ve read about the experiences of those banished to penal camps in Mao’s China. Wang reveals the dynamic interplay between rightists, camp guards, camp officials, and local and central authorities. He also illuminates the long-term human toll of banishment in all of its complexity.
Les mer
A remarkable look into the complex psychological world of intellectuals banished to labour camps by Mao.

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780774832236
Publisert
2017
Utgiver
Vendor
University of British Columbia Press
Vekt
560 gr
Høyde
229 mm
Bredde
152 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
300

Forfatter
Wang Ning

Om bidragsyterne

Ning Wang is an associate professor in the History Department at Brock University. Previously, he spent ten years working in a Communist Party history research institute in China.

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