Propaganda and Culture in Mao's China: Deng Tuo and the Intelligentsia

by Timothy Cheek

This biography of Deng Tuo (1912-1966) is a social history of intellectuals as agents in China's socialist revolution. It places Deng Tuo's writings and ideas in the rich context of his social experience as a member of the Communist bureaucracy and as an elite artist and aesthete. The tension
between service to politics and service to culture was ultimately disasterous for Deng and for China's revolution: his ghost haunts the halls of power in...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198290667
• ISBN13: 9780198290667
• Release Date: March 1998
• Publisher: Clarendon Press
• Length: 408 Pages
• Weight: 1.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.6" x 9.3"