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Titre Red Allure and the Crimson Blindfold
Auteur Geremie Barmé
Mir@bel Revue China perspectives
Numéro no 2012/2 Mao Today: A Political Icon for an Age of Prosperity
Rubrique / Thématique
Special Feature: Mao Today: A Political Icon for an Age of Prosperity
Page 29-40
Résumé anglais 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 left-leaning 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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