{"product_id":"9780520954038","title":"Anyuan: Mining China's Revolutionary Tradition","description":"How do we explain the surprising trajectory of the Chinese Communist revolution?  Why has it taken such a different route from its Russian prototype?  An answer, Elizabeth Perry suggests, lies in the Chinese Communists’ creative development and deployment of cultural resources – during their revolutionary rise to power and afterwards.  Skillful \"cultural positioning\" and \"cultural patronage,\" on the part of Mao Zedong, his comrades and successors, helped to construct a polity in which a once alien Communist system came to be accepted as familiarly \"Chinese.\"  Perry traces this process through a case study of the Anyuan coal mine, a place where Mao and other early leaders of the Chinese Communist Party mobilized an influential labor movement at the beginning of their revolution, and whose history later became a touchstone of \"political correctness\" in the People’s Republic of China. Once known as \"China’s Little Moscow,\" Anyuan came over time to symbolize a distinctively Chinese revolutionary tradition.  Yet the meanings of that tradition remain highly contested, as contemporary Chinese debate their revolutionary past in search of a new political future.","brand":"University of California Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47120082108656,"sku":"9780520954038","price":34.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780520954038_p0.jpg?v=1763710241","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780520954038","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}