Essays about: "Maoism"

Found 4 essays containing the word Maoism.

1. 1. How have Confucian traditions and values influenced institutional power structures in Maoist ideology?  : A comparative discourse analysis of ideologies enforcing authoritarianism. 

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Teologiska institutionen

   Author : Fredrik Larsson; [2020]
   Keywords : China; Confucianism; Maoism; PRC; People’s Republic of China; Philosophy; Totalitarianism; Discourse Analysis; CCP;

   Abstract : This master’s thesis will thoroughly analyze the discourse that is the transformation and interaction of the Maoist ideology with the previous Confucian traditions and its importance in institutional spheres of society in contemporary China. The thesis aims to analyze correlations and causations to the aspect of the rise of Maoism from a non-Communist Chinese society highly influenced by Confucian values and traditions to a Maoist dominated Chinese cultural, social, and political landscape. READ MORE

3. 2. The Ideological Transformation of the Icon Chairman Mao during the Four Modernisations period : As illustrated by "Melody of Youth, Beautiful Soul"

   University essay from Högskolan Dalarna/Kinesiska

   Author : Jeremy Biggs; [2016]
   Keywords : Chinese; China; Deconstruction; Iconography; Mao Zedong; Iconographic transformation; Ideology; Maoism; Four Modernisations; Hauntology;

   Abstract : After Chairman Mao's death, in the late 1980's, Mao was removed from official government communications and his iconography transformed from having a specific meaning generation role linked to Maoist ideology, to becoming available for use as a commodity. In this research I use cultural theorist Jacques Derrida's theory of Hauntology and the deconstruction method to analyse a representative Chinese Propaganda poster, "Melody of Youth, Beautiful Soul", in order to ascertain the effect Mao's death had on the Iconography of Chairman Mao, and how Mao is ideologically transformed during this period. READ MORE

4. 3. Re-enchanting China: Private Religiosities in the Media Field in Beijing

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Socialantropologi

   Author : Björn Schwartz; [2012]
   Keywords : chinese dialectics; chinese cosmology; Maoism; enchantment; disenchantment; VIP religion; guanxi-networking; post-socialist subjectivity; clubbing as networking and status affirmation; field analysis; status; the emerging structure of entitlement; social change in contemporary China; the private media field in Beijing; conversion; Vajrayana Buddhism; christianity; housechurch; religious revival; emergent social hierarchy; private religions; secret social movements; the Christian field in China; the Buddhist field in China. Housechurch as millenarianism. Comparing Housechurch with cult of Mao.; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : The thesis examines two emergent religiosities which flourish among university students and young professionals connected with the private media field in Beijing. One case group consists of young successful professionals from the field of private media who have started to worship a living Buddha of the Vajrayana school. READ MORE

5. 4. Scars on Screen : How Is Maoist China Depicted on Film?

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Kinesiska

   Author : Tim Löfstedt; [2011]
   Keywords : film; china; chinese film; maoism; cultural revolution; jiang wen; xie jin; hibiscus town; in the heat of the sun; memory; scar literature; Languages and Literatures;

   Abstract : After the end of the Cultural Revolution, restrictions on art production in China eased considerably, and alternative accounts of life under Mao emerged, conflicting earlier official accounts of life in Maoist China. Since then, a number of films depicting the so-called decade of turmoil and the years preceding it have been produced. READ MORE