Modern Erasures: Revolution, the Civilizing Mission, and the Shaping of China's Past

by Pierre Fuller

Book Overview

Modern Erasures is an ambitious and innovative study of the acts of epistemic violence behind China's transformation from a semicolonized republic to a Communist state over the twentieth century. Pierre Fuller charts the pedigree of Maoist thought and practice between the May Fourth movement of 1919 and the peak of the Cultural Revolution in 1969 to shed light on the relationship between epistemic and physical violence, book burning and bloodletting,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1009012932
• ISBN13: 9781009012935
• Release Date: January 2024
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.07 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"