Newborn Socialist Things

Newborn Socialist Things
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Publisher : Duke University Press
Total Pages : 150
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ISBN-10 : 9781478021612
ISBN-13 : 1478021616
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Book Synopsis Newborn Socialist Things by : Laurence Coderre

Download or read book Newborn Socialist Things written by Laurence Coderre and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2021-06-28 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contemporary China is seen as a place of widespread commodification and consumerism, while the preceeding Maoist Cultural Revolution is typically understood as a time when goods were scarce and the state criticized what little consumption was possible. Indeed, with the exception of the likeness and words of Mao Zedong, both the media and material culture of the Cultural Revolution are often characterized as a void out of which the postsocialist world of commodity consumption miraculously sprang fully formed. In Newborn Socialist Things, Laurence Coderre explores the material culture of the Cultural Revolution to show how it paved the way for commodification in contemporary China. Examining objects ranging from retail counters and porcelain statuettes to textbooks and vanity mirrors, she shows how the project of building socialism in China has always been intimately bound up with consumption. By focusing on these objects—or “newborn socialist things”—along with the Cultural Revolution’s media environment, discourses of materiality, and political economy, Coderre reconfigures understandings of the origins of present-day China.


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