China's Soviet Dream: Propaganda, Culture, and Popular Imagination

by Yan Li

Book Overview

This book examines the introduction of Soviet socialist culture in the People's Republic of China, with a focus on the period of Sino-Soviet friendship in the 1950s. The vast state initiative to transplant Soviet culture into Chinese soil has conventionally been dismissed as a tool of propaganda and political indoctrination. However, this book demonstrates that this transnational engagement not only facilitated China's broader transition to socialist...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367209144
• ISBN13: 9780367209148
• Release Date: January 2019
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.69 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"