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113768
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The two Mao films of 2009 and 2011 set a new standard in the confluence of commercial and propaganda productions in terms of sheer scale. While they are not fundamentally new in repackaging propaganda as entertainment, or even in co-opting parodic elements within official discourse, this essay argues that, viewed against the background of recent policy speeches, they contribute to defining the new "mainstream socialist culture" set out as a cultural policy goal by Hu Jintao. By the same thrust, they redefine the figure of Mao and the role of the CCP in an attempt to stake out a popular consensus on the contemporary Chinese polity.
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113767
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2012.
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This essay takes as its starting point the precipitous fall of Bo Xilai in March 2012 and discusses the context of the abiding significance of China's red legacies, in particular Maoism, in understanding the People's Republic of China today. While thinkers labour to salvage Marxism, the red legacy constitutes a body of cultural, intellectual, and linguistic practices that are profoundly ingrained in institutional behaviour in China. This study explores to what extent this version of the red legacy leeches out the power of other modes of leftleaning critique and independent thought, and abets the party-state in its pursuit of a guided, one-party neo-liberal economic agenda.
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181853
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The governance of cultural development and cultural industries in China has become an area of increasing academic interest in recent years. Here, we seek to understand the dynamics and uniqueness of the impacts of Red Culture and cultural governance in the city of Shanghai. The authors have selected the dimension of the political economy of museums to demonstrate how local authorities tread a difficult path, balancing multiple policy goals, including market incentives and ideological indoctrination, in the context of culture development. The case study of Shanghai demonstrates how museums reflect the renewal of party-state identity and market utilities. This article also examines what history means to this city today, and how historical elements are utilized in the course of urban transformation.
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