Mao Zedong and the Chinese Revolution

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Breht O'Shea

Communism, Politics, Liberalism, Society & Culture, Philosophy, News, History, Leftwing, Socialism, Marxism

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🗓️ 4 June 2018

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Yueran Zhang is a PhD candidate in Sociology at Harvard University. Yueran joins Brett to discuss Mao and the Chinese Revolution.

Yueran's academic profile is here: https://sociology.fas.harvard.edu/people/yueran-zhang

Here are the recommendations Yueran gave at the end of the episode:

- Mao's China and After: http://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Maos-China-and-After/Maurice-Meisner/9780684856353

Rise of the Red Engineers: https://www.eastwestcenter.org/publications/rise-red-engineers-cultural-revolution-and-origins-chinas-new-class

The Cultural Revolution at the Margins: http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674728790

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0:18.1	Where's the world? You night!
0:48.1	Welcome everybody to revolutionary left radio. I'm your host Anne Comrade,
1:12.9	Bredo Shea, and today we have on your and Zang to talk about Mao in the Chinese
1:17.4	Revolution. Yoren, would you like to introduce yourself and say a little bit
1:20.5	about your background? Okay, sure. Thank you for having me. I'm Yuran and I'm a
1:26.9	grad student in sociology at Harvard University. My primary academic interest is
1:36.7	in political and historical sociology and also Marxist theories. I in particular
1:44.6	study political economy and class politics in China and as a side project I
1:51.4	also study China's contemporary Maoism and other than academic stuff I have
1:58.2	also been involved in left activism and labor organizing both in China and the
2:04.8	US. Well I'm extremely excited and honored to have you on. This is this whole
2:09.4	topic I think is something that is sort of under representative and sort of
2:14.3	misunderstood on the on the US left. I think there are a lot more people are
2:18.1	familiar with the Russian Revolution and the Cuban Revolution but there isn't a
2:22.1	lot of real knowledge on the left about the Chinese Revolution and I've been
2:25.9	getting really interested in Maoism and the Chinese Revolution generally
2:30.0	lately and so I thought this would be an awesome episode and an educational one
2:33.7	as well but before we get into all the questions because we have a lot to cover
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