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Dienstag
18
JAN

14.15 Uhr

Study the “Nine Polemics”: Production, transmission, and consumption of a Maoist Political Campaign (1963-1964)

Prof. Dr. Peidong Sun, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York (USA), The Department of History

Abstract:
The “Nine Commentaries” (九评Jiu ping) are a series of polemical attacks on Soviet revisionism that the Chinese Communist Party published in People’s Daily 人民日报 and Red Flag 红旗 in 1963 and 1964. Masterminded by Mao Zedong and drafted by the CCP’s top theorists, these texts have often been overlooked or dealt with only in passing in studies of the Cultural Revolution, while they actually laid the ideological and media groundwork for its launch. Especially important is the profound influence these texts had on the Red Guard generation, as their style and rhetoric became a model for Red Guard polemics. Based on previously untapped archival sources, as well as interviews and oral histories, this lecture studies how the “Nine Commentaries” exerted a powerful influence on an important generation in China’s contemporary society. It analyzes the reception of the texts as well as their production and dissemination. A key finding is that radio broadcasts played a crucial role in disseminating the “Nine Commentaries” and strengthening their influence.

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https://www.cats.uni-heidelberg.de

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Alle Termine der Veranstaltung 'Reading in Socialist China — from Mao to Xi':

4 Lectures by CATS Digital Fellow, Professor SUN Peidong on Reading in Socialist China—from Mao to Xi

Professor SUN is the Michael J. Zak associate professor of history for China and Asia-Pacific Studies at Cornell University. After being an associate professor of history at Fudan University (Shanghai), she was a visiting professor at Sciences Po and European Institutes for Chinese studies in Paris from Feb.2020 to June 2021. She is a social and cultural historian of the post-1949 period. Her research has centred on the history and contemporary implications of Chinese everyday life and politics. She has published on topics such as global reading practices, the politics of fashion, and mate choices in China. Peidong is currently working on a book tentatively entitled "Underground Epistemologies: How the Cultural Revolution Shaped the Xi Jinping Generation.”

Professor Sun has been a Digital Research Fellow at Heidelberg since the summer term of 2021.

Dienstag, 11. Januar 2022, 14.15 Uhr

The Son also rises: Personal Reading Stratification of Educated Youth Generation during the Cultural Revolution (1968-1978)

Prof. Dr. Peidong Sun, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York (USA), The Department of History

Dienstag, 18. Januar 2022, 14.15 Uhr

Study the “Nine Polemics”: Production, transmission, and consumption of a Maoist Political Campaign (1963-1964)

Prof. Dr. Peidong Sun, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York (USA), The Department of History

Dienstag, 25. Januar 2022, 14.15 Uhr

Censors at work: mechanism of censorship in China under Mao (1949-1976)

Prof. Dr. Peidong Sun, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York (USA), The Department of History

Dienstag, 01. Februar 2022, 14.15 Uhr

A brief intro to reading practices in China after 1978

Prof. Dr. Peidong Sun, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York (USA), The Department of History