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Lexington Books The Cultural Revolution and Overacting: Dynamics Between Politics and Performance

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Product Description The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, which took place in China between 1966 and 1976, was a major political and social tragedy in Chinese history. As part of an effort to understand how the state enforced control amid seeming chaos, this book looks at the ubiquitous revolutionary presentations and performances of power, such as political rituals, revolutionary rhetoric, and public gatherings, in people's everyday lives during the Cultural Revolution as performances that contributed to the control of the Chinese people. In particular, this book discusses how the promotion of revolutionary models in real life contributed to people's eagerness to perform the role of the ideal revolutionary, and how the possibility of complete revolutionary transformation, promoted by the state media, and the hard fact that no one was able to completely become a Maoist subject, who would be completely selfless and think and speak only Maoist teaching, subjected people to a state of becoming but never fully having become. The fear of failing in the Maoist transformation constituted the inner mechanism that propelled ordinary people's radical revolutionary behavior. In addition, this book examines the audience's reaction to Jiang Qing's court performance in the trial of the Gang of Four as an anarchic liberation from the revolutionary performance of the Cultural Revolution. Utilizing methodologies of cultural anthropology, linguistics, acting theory, and literary criticism, this book reveals how people's performances of their everyday life functioned as mechanisms of social control. Review Overall, The Cultural Revolution and Overacting points out the overdramatization within the dailiness at the core of the Cultural Revolution and brings the understanding of socialist masses a new light.... Differently, this study marks an attempt of appreciating the shifts from the textual and semiotic aspects of cultural artifacts to ordinary people's embodied experience and daily practices during the Cultural Revolution.... Wang's book offers an alternative perspective from which the empirical and interdisciplinary moves towards an anthropology of the Chinese Cultural Revolution from below are promised and potentially allowed.--China Review About the Author Tuo Wang is a performance studies scholar with a PhD from the Tisch School of the Arts.

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Brand: Lexington Books
Format: Hardcover
ASIN: 0739192906
Category: Books > Subjects > Biography > Medical, Legal & Social Sciences > Anthropology & Sociology
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 03 October 2014
Listed Since: 11 June 2014

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