Title Thought reform and China's dangerous classes : reeducation, resistance, and the people / Aminda M. Smith.

Publication Info.	Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, [2013]
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Description	1 online resource.
Series	Asia/Pacific/perspectives
	Asia/Pacific/perspectives.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	Finding a place for the Lumpenproletariat : vacillators and rural revolution -- The people versus their enemies : urban reeducation and the old society -- The curriculum of consciousness raising : low consciousness and mass reeducation -- The laboring masses : voluntarism and the people -- The people stand up : resistance and reform.
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Summary	This book offers the first detailed study of the essential relationship between thought reform and the "dangerous classes"--The prostitutes, beggars, petty criminals, and other "lumpenproletarians" the Communists saw as a threat to society and the revolution. Aminda Smith takes readers inside early-PRC reformatories, where the new state endeavored to transform "vagrants" into members of the laboring masses. As places where "the people" were literally created, these centers became testing grounds for rapidly changing ideas and experiments about thought reform and the subjects they produced. Smit.
Subject	China -- Social conditions -- 1949-1976.
	China -- Politics and government -- 1949-1976.
	Political culture -- China -- History -- 20th century.
	Education and state -- China -- History -- 20th century.
	Education -- Social aspects -- China -- History -- 20th century.
	Communism -- China -- History -- 20th century.
	POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
	SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
	SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
	Communism. (OCoLC)fst00870421
	Education and state. (OCoLC)fst00902835
	Education -- Social aspects. (OCoLC)fst00902773
	Political culture. (OCoLC)fst01069263
	Politics and government. (OCoLC)fst01919741
	Social conditions. (OCoLC)fst01919811
	China. (OCoLC)fst01206073
Chronological Term	1900-1999
Genre/Form	History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Other Form:	Print version: 9781442218383
ISBN	1442218398 (electronic bk.)
	9781442218390 (electronic bk.)

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