Revolutionary Transformations

Anja Blanke is a Research Fellow at Zeppelin Universität. Julia C. Strauss is Professor of Chinese Politics at SOAS, University of London. Klaus Mühlhahn is President and Chair of Modern China studies at Zeppelin Universität.

'Revolutionary Transformations brings together an impressive collection of Chinese and Western scholars to reassess the founding decade of the People's Republic of China—from the global to the national to the local level. Building on over two decades of new scholarship it brings to life a decade that saw triumph and tragedy and shapes China today.' Timothy Cheek, University of British Columbia

• Introduction: revolutionary transformations in 1950s China Julia C. Strauss, Anja Blanke and Klaus Mühlhahn; Part I. Revolution and the Transnational: Introduction to Part I Klaus Mühlhahn; 1. International relations and China's position in the socialist camp Susanne Weigelin-Schwiedrzik; 2. Sino–Soviet anxiety: science and Chinese conditions in the PRC coal industry (1949–1965) Anna Belogurova; 3. Producing socialist bodies: transnational sports networks and athletes in 1950s China Amanda Shuman; 4. Asia's fourth Rome: cultural industries and cultural diplomacy in the international legitimization of the People's Republic of China, 1949–1953 Matthew D. Johnson; Part II. Domestic Governance: Inheriting empire, revolutionizing society: Introduction to Part II Julia C. Strauss; 5. Modalities of state building: bureaucracy, campaign, and performance in Sunan, 1950–1953 Julia C. Strauss; 6. The wilds of revolution: anti-localism and Hainanese women in the early People's Republic of China Jeremy A. Murray and Alexander J. Serran; 7. Reconstruction and solidification: restructuring of the 'peasant' status in the 1950s dispersal of Shanghai's urban population Ruan Qinghua; Part III. Legitimacy (Local) Agencies: Introduction to Part III Anja Blake; 8. Anxiety in the revolutionary turn: Shanghai film personnel in the 1950s Zhang Jishun; 9. Letters from the people: the masses and the mass line in 1950s China Aminda M. Smith; 10. Cadres, grain, and rural conflicts: a study of criminal cases in a village during the great leap forward Wenyu Jing; 11. How the CCP has failed to obtain control over China's collective memory on the 1950s Anja Blanke; 12. Postscript: rethinking China under Mao Klaus Mühlhahn.