Red service-intellectual: Phouk Chhay, Maoist China, and the Cultural Revolution in Cambodia, 1964–67

2021 ◽  
Vol 52 (2) ◽  
pp. 275-308
Author(s):  
Matthew Galway
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Revolution ◽  
Social Experiences ◽  
Intellectual Curiosity ◽  
The Social ◽  
Life Trajectory ◽  
Radical Culture ◽  
Maoist China ◽  
Rural Student ◽  
The Cultural Revolution

This article examines the phenomenon of Cambodian intellectual curiosity about China through the social experiences of Phouk Chhay, a prominent leftist activist-critic and Pol Pot's one-time secretary. Amid Phnom Penh's urban radical culture, Phouk transformed from rural student to Communist guerrilla. He associated with Communists, formed pro-China student associations, and through his networks, went on trips that left lasting impressions. This study draws from issues of the Cambodian-Chinese newspaper Mianhua ribao (Sino-Khmer Daily) and several forced confessions to tell a story of becoming that examines community and network in charting the course of ‘China-curiosity’ as intertwined with Phouk's life trajectory.

Seeing a World Apart: Visual Reality in Michelangelo Antonioni's Chung Kuo/Cina

ARTMargins ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 21-44 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jenny Lin
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Revolution ◽  
Socialist Realism ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
People's Republic Of China ◽  
Republic Of China ◽  
Visual Reality ◽  
Cultural Project ◽  
Maoist China ◽  
Made In ◽  
The Cultural Revolution

This essay examines Michelangelo Antonioni's Chung Kuo Cina (China) (1972), a documentary made in and about the People's Republic of China during the height of the Cultural Revolution. Detailing the documentary's controversial reception and analyzing Chung Kuo’s emphasis on visual reality in opposition to the PRC's official socialist realism, I argue that Chung Kuo constituted a critical cross-cultural project, while providing a unique portrayal of quotidian life in Maoist China.

scholarly journals Wang Zhen's Role in the Recovery of the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corpus (Early 1980s)

2021 ◽  
pp. 46-53
Author(s):  
D.A. Glazunov
Keyword(s):  
Economic System ◽  
Cultural Revolution ◽  
Soviet Period ◽  
Soviet State ◽  
Subsequent Period ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of ◽  
Border Areas ◽  
Scientific Achievements ◽  
The Cultural Revolution

The Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps (XPCC) or Bingtuan originates to the ancient military settlements (Tuntian or Tunken) on the border territories. Their goal is to protect and develop border areas, restore and progress the economy. Tunken, regardless of historical conditions, has always been an exclusively state-owned economic system. Therefore, the XPCC, despite the fact that it originated in 1952; it is based on the long tradition of its historical predecessors. At the same time, during the Soviet period, Tunken absorbed communist ideals, the experience of Soviet state farms, scientific achievements in the social and national building and military defense. In the subsequent period, in the Cultural Revolution, Bingt^n fell into disrepair and was liquidated. A new stage in the history of the Xinjiang Corps came with the beginning of the era of reform and opening. But all over china, the time of Bingtuan has come to an end: many state-owned enterprises and state farms associated with the development of border territories have totally transformed into independent economic units focused on the market. Thanks to the activities of Wang Zhen, who was well aware of the social realities of the region, an exception was made for Xinjiang, in which Bingtuan was restored in the early 1980s. The paper examines Wang Zhen's role in the revival of the XPCC, the reasons that influenced his position.

Images of China's Social Structure: The Changing Perspectives of Canton Students

1982 ◽  
Vol 34 (3) ◽  
pp. 295-323 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anita Chan
Keyword(s):  
Social Structure ◽  
Cultural Revolution ◽  
Social Groups ◽  
Social Reality ◽  
Middle Classes ◽  
The Social ◽  
Popular Images ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
The Cultural Revolution

Based on documentation and in-depth interviews with 14 emigrants from China; this study traces changing perceptions of China's social structure by different urban social groups. Each group adopted a perspective that best served its own interests. In the fifties and sixties these images did not necessarily coincide with—but nonetheless were within—the bounds of the image propagated by the Chinese authorities. During and since the turmoil of the Cultural Revolution, a new perception of society has been formulated particularly by people from the former middle classes: the issue centers on whether a new bureaucratic class has emerged in China. The article closes with a discussion of the authorities' recent attempts to redefine popular images of the social structure in response to a changed social reality and China's eagerness to modernize.

Students and Class Warfare: The Social Roots of the Red Guard Conflict in Guangzhou (Canton)

1980 ◽  
Vol 83 ◽  
pp. 397-446 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anita Chan ◽  
Stanley Rosen ◽  
Jonathan Unger
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Cultural Revolution ◽  
The Other ◽  
Modern China ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Social ◽  
Red Guard ◽  
The Cultural Revolution

Until recent years, scholars of modern China had generally assumed that in the Cultural Revolution violence of 1966–68 young people were almost arbitrarily joining one or the other of the opposing Red Guard groups. Only within the past few years have researchers begun to unveil the antagonism among students early in the Cultural Revolution over “class” issues and the resulting differences in the composition, tactics and goals of the Red Guard factions.

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