Marxism and the Chinese Experience: Issues in Contemporary Chinese Socialism

by Arif Dirlik, Maurice Meisner

Overview

These essays consider the implications for Chinese socialism of the repudiation of the Cultural Revolution and the legacy of Mao Zedong as well as the meaning of the new definition and direction Mao's successors have given socialism. The themes have been selected for conceptual coherence within a socialist problematic of social change. Representing anthropology, art history, economics, history, literature and politics, various inquiries point in a twofold direction - the meaning of socialism for China and the meaning of Chinese Socialism for socialism as a global phenomenon - "meaning" not in some abstract sense but rather as it is constituted in the process of political ideological activity, which articulates and defines social relationships within China as well as China's relationship to the world.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780873325158
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	01/31/1989
Series:	Socialism and Social Movements
Pages:	396
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Arif Dirlik, Ann Anagnost, Marc Blecher, Bill Brugger, Edward Friedman, Ted Huters, Richard C. Kraus

Table of Contents

Part 1 Introduction; Chapter 1 Politics, Scholarship, and Chinese Socialism, Arif Dirlik, Meisner Maurice; Chapter 2 Revolutionary Hegemony and the Language of Revolution: Chinese Socialism between Present and Future, Arif Dirlik; Part 2 Political Economy; Chapter 3 Mao Zedong and The Political Economy of Chinese Development, Mark Selden; Chapter 4 On the Organization of Production under Socialism, Peter Schran; Chapter 5 Marx, Mao, and Deng on the Division of Labor in History, Maurice Meisner; Chapter 6 Mao, Science, Technology, and Humanity, Bill Brugger; Chapter 7 Socialism and Economic Development: The Politics of Accumulation in China, Penelope B. Prime; Chapter 8 Restructuring the Working Class: Labor Reform in Post-Mao China, Cordon White; Part 3 Social Relations, Political Power, and Culture; Chapter 9 Theorizing the Democratization of China’s Leninist State, Edward Friedman; Chapter 10 Structural Change and the Political Articulation of Social Interest in Revolutionary and Socialist China, Marc Blecher; Chapter 11 Prosperity and Counterprosperity: The Moral Discourse on Wealth in Post-Mao China, Ann Anagnost; Chapter 12 Hegemony and Productivity: Workers in Post-Mao China, Lisa Rofel; Chapter 13 Chicken Little in China: Some Reelections on Women, Marilyn Young; Chapter 14 Feminist Humanism: Socialism and Neofeminism in the Writings of Zhang Jie, Roxann Prazniak; Chapter 15 The Lament of Astrophysicist Fang Lizhi: China’s Intellectuals in a Global Context, Richard C. Kraus; Chapter 16 Between Praxis and Essence: The Search for Cultural Expression in the Chinese Revolution, Ted Huters; Part 4 Conclusions; Chapter 17 The Deradicalization of Chinese Socialism, Maurice Meisner; Chapter 18 Postsocialism? Reflections on “Socialism with Chinese Characteristics”, Arif Dirlik;