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This article examines the political experience and mental journey of four Western-educated Chinese intellectuals in the Mao era: art critic and translator Fu Lei; architect Liang Sicheng; historian Zhou Yiliang; and rocket scientist Qian Xuesen. It shows that though initially politically unaffiliated, all four were rapidly drawn towards the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), identified with the Party norms and lent support to the state. Such development can be attributed to their serious deliberation on ideological, social and personal issues, and the Party’s co-optation strategies. They were either eventually victimized in Maoist campaigns, or took advantage of political winds for personal advancement, or shrewdly carved out a professional space by virtue of political correctness. Their stories shed important light on the complex pattern of thinking and behavior of Chinese intellectuals, and the dynamism of the CCP in its early rule.
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143555
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In the current Chinese and international cultural and theoretical context globalisation has been one of the most heatedly debated topics of the past decade. This raises these questions: why should we Chinese humanities scholars deal with this topic with such enthusiasm? Has China really benefited from globalisation in its modernity project? How is globalisation realised in the Chinese context? How has it affected China’s humanities and culture? The advent of globalisation in China is subject to various constructions and reconstructions in its glocalised practice. So it is actually a sort of glocalisation in the Chinese context. Based on my previous research and on others’ publications, I offer my own reconstruction of globalisation with regard to its ‘glocalised’ practice in China. In the age of globalisation modernity has taken on a new look, or become a postmodern modernity, characterised by contemporary consumer culture. Along with the rapid development of its economy, China is now experiencing a sort of ‘de-third-worldising’ process, with its function increasingly important in the world.
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105856
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Between 1991 and 2001, Qian Xuesen, China's leading missile expert, was given an array of honourable titles by the state, followed by eulogistic narratives by the media and his biographers. This article analyses three forms of Chinese narratives about Qian: commendations from the state, stories told by his biographers, and Qian's self-presentation. It aims to show that although the CCP showered Qian with compliments seemingly because of his contributions to China's national defence and space programmes, the real reasons were Qian's political fidelity and the Party's aim to build a role model for intellectuals to emulate. The article demonstrates that Maoist practices of "hero construction" and using history for the present persist in the post-Mao period with some variations, and that the writings of "unofficial history" are heavily influenced by official history.
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