Aminda M. Smith is assistant professor in the Department of History at Michigan State University.
Thought reform is arguably China’s most controversial social policy. If reeducation’s critics and defenders agree on little else, they share the conviction that ideological remolding is inseparable from its Mao-era roots. This is the first major English-language study to explore one of the most important aspects of those origins, the essential relationship between thought reform and the “dangerous classes”—the prostitutes, beggars, petty criminals, and other “lumpenproletarians” that Communists saw as a threat to society and the revolution. Through formerly unavailable classified documents, as well as diaries, oral histories, and memoirs, Aminda Smith takes readers inside the early-PRC reformatories where the new state endeavored to transform socially marginalized “vagrants” into socially integrated members of the laboring masses. As sites where “the people” were literally created, these centers became testing grounds for rapidly changing discourses about the praxis of thought reform as well as the subjects it aimed to produce. Her book explores reformatories as institutions dedicated to molding new socialist citizens and as symbolic spaces through which internees, cadres, and the ordinary masses made sense of what it meant to be a member of the people in the People’s Republic of China. She offers convincing new answers to much-debated questions about the nature of the crucial decade of the 1950s, especially with respect to the development and future of PRC political culture.
發表於2024-12-25
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圖書標籤: 海外中國研究 曆史 共和國史 中國 中共黨史 思想史 共和國 中國政治
在共黨社會改造工程中,劃分敵我、構建”人民“認同和共同體是重要一環,而乞丐、妓女、短工、小偷等無組織散漫人群,在經典馬列文獻及共黨創始人觀念中,缺乏階級意識、沒有明確階級經濟地位、對革命與新社會不熱情,但其地位低下而對現狀潛在不滿又可能被納入革命勢力中。建政後中共采取勞教結閤方式試圖將其改造為人民一份子,教養所遂成為敵我界綫反復劃分與再生産、身份認同與意義再造的場所:階級壓迫剝削體製取代迷信觀念成為貧苦狀況來源;敵我觀念通過訴苦、記憶再包裝、典型宣傳和課堂灌輸進入改造者頭腦;在符閤馬列經典理論的勞動改造規管下,敵我界綫在努力改造、消極怠工和反抗三者間遊移,大部分被成功壓服改造而使得中共可宣稱消滅遊民群體,少數個體則在隨後激進政治運動中被再次打擊。但改造思維和模式持續保留在後來的勞改製度中。
評分Other than the author, no one knows this book better than me, haha!
評分在共黨社會改造工程中,劃分敵我、構建”人民“認同和共同體是重要一環,而乞丐、妓女、短工、小偷等無組織散漫人群,在經典馬列文獻及共黨創始人觀念中,缺乏階級意識、沒有明確階級經濟地位、對革命與新社會不熱情,但其地位低下而對現狀潛在不滿又可能被納入革命勢力中。建政後中共采取勞教結閤方式試圖將其改造為人民一份子,教養所遂成為敵我界綫反復劃分與再生産、身份認同與意義再造的場所:階級壓迫剝削體製取代迷信觀念成為貧苦狀況來源;敵我觀念通過訴苦、記憶再包裝、典型宣傳和課堂灌輸進入改造者頭腦;在符閤馬列經典理論的勞動改造規管下,敵我界綫在努力改造、消極怠工和反抗三者間遊移,大部分被成功壓服改造而使得中共可宣稱消滅遊民群體,少數個體則在隨後激進政治運動中被再次打擊。但改造思維和模式持續保留在後來的勞改製度中。
評分Other than the author, no one knows this book better than me, haha!
評分在共黨社會改造工程中,劃分敵我、構建”人民“認同和共同體是重要一環,而乞丐、妓女、短工、小偷等無組織散漫人群,在經典馬列文獻及共黨創始人觀念中,缺乏階級意識、沒有明確階級經濟地位、對革命與新社會不熱情,但其地位低下而對現狀潛在不滿又可能被納入革命勢力中。建政後中共采取勞教結閤方式試圖將其改造為人民一份子,教養所遂成為敵我界綫反復劃分與再生産、身份認同與意義再造的場所:階級壓迫剝削體製取代迷信觀念成為貧苦狀況來源;敵我觀念通過訴苦、記憶再包裝、典型宣傳和課堂灌輸進入改造者頭腦;在符閤馬列經典理論的勞動改造規管下,敵我界綫在努力改造、消極怠工和反抗三者間遊移,大部分被成功壓服改造而使得中共可宣稱消滅遊民群體,少數個體則在隨後激進政治運動中被再次打擊。但改造思維和模式持續保留在後來的勞改製度中。
Thought Reform and China's Dangerous Classes 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載