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Cultural production under Mao, and how artists and thinkers found autonomy in a culture of conformity

In the 1950s, a French journalist joked that the Chinese were “blue ants under the red flag,” dressing identically and even moving in concert like robots. When the Cultural Revolution officially began, this uniformity seemed to extend to the mind. From the outside, China had become a monotonous world, a place of endless repetition and imitation, but a closer look reveals a range of cultural experiences, which also provided individuals with an obscure sense of freedom.

In The Art of Cloning, Pang Laikwan examines this period in Chinese history when ordinary citizens read widely, traveled extensively through the country, and engaged in a range of cultural and artistic activities. The freedom they experienced, argues Pang, differs from the freedom, under Western capitalism, to express individuality through a range of consumer products. But it was far from boring and was possessed of its own kind of diversity.

Reviews

“A thoughtful contribution to the writing of a new and nuanced cultural history of the Cultural Revolution. Pang’s work brings a fresh optic to the question of how Chinese people lived, felt and made art in a fraught age of revolution.”

– Andrew Jones, author of Yellow Music: Media Culture and Colonial Modernity in the Chinese Jazz Age

“Pang Laikwan’s meticulous research draws the reader into a world in which this art of copying, of making models and of typifications framed the cultural and political realm and then spread across the social landscape to fashion life itself. Offering new and exciting insights based upon impeccable research, this is one book about the Cultural Revolution that should not be missed.”

– Michael Dutton, coauthor of Beijing Time

“A major intervention into a fraught field. Luminously opening new and old channels of inquiry, Pang forces a reconsideration of the processes and politics of cultural production in China’s Cultural Revolutionary decade.”

– Rebecca Karl, author of Mao Zedong and China in the Twentieth-Century World: A Concise History

Pang Laikwan is a Professor of Cultural Studies at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and author of Creativity and Its Discontents.

2021-10-29

延续《哈哈镜》的思路，还是强调人的能动性，和意识形态的关系并非被动的内化，而是社会模仿的过程，在表演意底牢结的过程中形成自我并生产（一个并非完全整齐划一的）集体文化。历史论述中有许多受益匪浅的部分，比如对毛氏浪漫主义的辨析、模范到样板的转变（how the regime如何逐渐发现虚构性比现实更为可靠）；复制也并非仅仅发生在抽象的个体和意底牢结之间，个体身份、媒介、声画各自的特性、国际交流等因素都会限制复制发生的方式和结果。有些疑惑的是：是否应该让理论框架中的“文化”和（其实是几乎同时期的）CCP 的文化理论有一个直接的对话，否则虽然否定了资本主义生产关系下产生的对主体性的定义，又似乎默许了同样来自对这套生产关系的批判而产生的关于“文化”及其autonomy and agency的理论。

小豹子

2021-12-30

再怎么高压也抵抗不住人们的正常美学、艺术需要。但是这种对个人空间的高度压缩将来永远不要再出现为好。

不介眉寿

2021-11-07

喜欢这个思路，以及结尾不如开头（

Rav.ruro

2021-02-27

「消滅三大差別」這句宣傳口號，在大躍進時期初次出現，後來在文革廣泛流傳。三大差別包括：城鄉差別、工農差別、腦體差別。

宜男

2017-09-05

If reality could really be transparent, there would be no ideology and no oppression. Ideology needs fiction to operate, so does its resistance. In contemporary China, when intellectuals are increasingly distanced from politics, probably only ordinary people can rekindle the dynamics between culture and politics in their ordinary lives. 意識形態總是要透過虛構的想象才得以操作對意識形態的抗爭也同樣需要想象力Culture is by nature a process, pointing to an open future through the unsettling couse of diversification. But the inherent association between culture and plurality was deliberately stamped out in the C R, which also pevented the people from imagining an open future. In a similar way, the "China dream" promoted by the current Xi government is only a most blatantly unimaginative endorsement of the present. 想象力的貧乏不過是...

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