Add to ORKGBook synopsis: Since the 1980s, China seems to have abandoned the utopian turmoil of Mao’s revolution in favour of authoritarian capitalism. But Mao and his ideas remain central to the People’s Republic. With disagreements between China and the West on the rise, the need to understand the political legacy of Mao is urgent and growing. A crucial motor of the Cold War: Maoism shaped the course of the Vietnam War and brought to power the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia; it aided anti-colonial resistance movements in Africa; it inspired terrorism in Germany and Italy, and wars and insurgencies in Peru, India and Nepal, some of which are still with us today. Starting with the birth of Mao’s revolution in northwest China in the 1930s and concluding...
Across the globe, the 20th century witnessed several instances of tyrannical regimes and leaders; Ch...
Chapter 6 focuses on the afterlives of Maoist propaganda outside China following the death of Mao Ze...
The charismatic and controversial figure of Mao Zedong has not only left a deep mark on the history ...
Despite its considerable influence at the height of the Cold War and in the post-World War II events...
Talk of China becoming the next global power broker is no longer considered outlandish, although the...
Book synopsis: Home to a rapidly rising superpower and the two largest economies in the world after ...
What does Maoism stand for? What does it represent as a political idea and as a current in contempor...
This dissertation argues that Chairman Mao Zedong’s written texts, his thought (毛澤東思想, Máo Zédōng Sī...
This dissertation examines the global history of Maoism in the 1960s and 1970s. It provides analyses...
Like the revolutionary movements of the twentieth century, contemporary Maoist movements have combin...
This article explores the rhetoric and reality of the Cultural Revolution as an international phenom...
Academic interest in Mao Zedong’s role in the Chinese Revolution remains intense, as scholars and co...
In a masterly book, Roderick MacFarquhar and Michael Schoenhals explain why Mao launched the Cultura...
In explaining the phenomenon of global interest in Mao Zedong Thought, or Maoism outside China, it i...
In the early 1960s, West German intellectuals began to discuss the role and importance of Mao Zedong...
Across the globe, the 20th century witnessed several instances of tyrannical regimes and leaders; Ch...
Chapter 6 focuses on the afterlives of Maoist propaganda outside China following the death of Mao Ze...
The charismatic and controversial figure of Mao Zedong has not only left a deep mark on the history ...
Despite its considerable influence at the height of the Cold War and in the post-World War II events...
Talk of China becoming the next global power broker is no longer considered outlandish, although the...
Book synopsis: Home to a rapidly rising superpower and the two largest economies in the world after ...
What does Maoism stand for? What does it represent as a political idea and as a current in contempor...
This dissertation argues that Chairman Mao Zedong’s written texts, his thought (毛澤東思想, Máo Zédōng Sī...
This dissertation examines the global history of Maoism in the 1960s and 1970s. It provides analyses...
Like the revolutionary movements of the twentieth century, contemporary Maoist movements have combin...
This article explores the rhetoric and reality of the Cultural Revolution as an international phenom...
Academic interest in Mao Zedong’s role in the Chinese Revolution remains intense, as scholars and co...
In a masterly book, Roderick MacFarquhar and Michael Schoenhals explain why Mao launched the Cultura...
In explaining the phenomenon of global interest in Mao Zedong Thought, or Maoism outside China, it i...
In the early 1960s, West German intellectuals began to discuss the role and importance of Mao Zedong...
Across the globe, the 20th century witnessed several instances of tyrannical regimes and leaders; Ch...
Chapter 6 focuses on the afterlives of Maoist propaganda outside China following the death of Mao Ze...
The charismatic and controversial figure of Mao Zedong has not only left a deep mark on the history ...