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Wednesday | 06:00 PM | Plutarch and Transcultural Life Narratives: Analyzing Early CCP Leaders, Cai Hesen and Zhao Shiyan Marilyn LEVINE (Central Washington University) This lecture explores the transcultural experiences and political influence of two important, early Chinese CCP leaders: Cai Hesen (蔡和森1895–1931) and Zhao Shiyan (趙世炎1901–1927). Both Cai and Zhao were critical to the early ideological development of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and the spread of mass politics. The lecture will utilize the life cycle paradigm and attributes in Plutarch’s Lives of the Greeks and Romans, to explore the historical significance of these two Chinese Communist revolutionaries. Their life experiences will be examined with a Plutarchian lens of analysis for a more nuanced view of the commonalities and differences in their personae, youth group experiences, politicization in France, travel to the Soviet Union, political-agitation activities, and martyrdom. There also will be a section on transnational influences, particularly the exposure to Leninism and the development of a Soviet Returned cohort of fellow revolutionaries. The transnational focus also will include a comparative segment on three other political/intellectual activists, Wang Guangqi (王光祈1892-1936), Zhang Ruoming (張若名1902-1958), and Sheng Cheng (盛成1899-1997) as an extension of understanding culture across nations, and the life history consequences. In addition to collected writings, archival materials, and memoirs, the lecture utilizes oral interviews conducted in 1985 and 1990 with relatives and friends of Cai Hesen and Zhao Shiyan and with CCP scholars. Homepage Event https://www.cats.uni-heidelberg.de/medien/lsm.html Organizer Centre for Asian and Transcultural Studies (CATS) Homepage Organizer https://www.cats.uni-heidelberg.de Contact contact@cats.uni-heidelberg.de Registration E-Mail livingthesocialistmodern@gmail.com Alle Termine der Veranstaltung 'Living the Socialist Modern: The Chinese Communist Party at 100—Global and Interdisciplinary Perspectives ': 2021 marks the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Chinese Communist Party. What did it mean to “live with the Specter”, to experience what one might call the making of the “Socialist Modern” that found a first point of culmination with the foundation of the CCP in 1921? 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Dr. Deborah Davis, Yale University, New Haven / Conneticut (USA), Department fo Sociology Wednesday 17th November 2021, 06:00 PM Zhao Ziyang and the Voices for Reform Prof. Dr. Klaus Mühlhahn, Präsident der Zeppelin Universität, Friedrichshafen Wednesday 17th November 2021, 06:30 PM Radio Audiobooks in Reform Era China Prof. Dr. Paola Iovene, The University of Chicago (USA), Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations Wednesday 24th November 2021, 07:00 PM The CCP Faces a Second Undulation of the Democracy Movement Prof. Dr. Perry Link, University of California, Riverside (USA), Department of Comparative Literature and Languages Wednesday 01st December 2021, 04:00 PM Return to Communism? 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