ISSN:
0155-977X
Language:
English
Titel der Quelle:
Social analysis : the international journal of cultural and social practice
Publ. der Quelle:
New York, NY [u.a.] : Berghahn Journals
Angaben zur Quelle:
Vol. 59, No. 4 (2015), p. 83-100
DDC:
300
Abstract:
What does it mean when Mao Zedong is called 'Father Mao' and when ordinary people in central China put a poster of Mao in the place of their ancestors and the emperor? This article analyzes ordinary affection for the Chinese state and explores changing ideas of the leader as a father and the country as a family. The first part deals with the historical transformation of these metaphors from the late Qing dynasty to the Communist Revolution and Maoism, describing the vernacularization and sentimentalization of the 'Confucian order of the father/son' in twentieth-century China. Against this historical background and based on fieldwork material from central China, the second part deals with the 'mixed feelings' that people in the present day now have for fathers at home, for local officials, and for national leaders.
DOI:
10.3167/sa.2015.590406
URL:
http://search.proquest.com/docview/1768189566
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