The Resource Unending capitalism : how consumerism negated China's communist revolution, Karl Gerth, (electronic resource)
Unending capitalism : how consumerism negated China's communist revolution, Karl Gerth, (electronic resource)
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- Summary
- What forces shaped the twentieth-century world? Capitalism and communism are usually seen as engaged in a fight-to-the-death during the Cold War. With the establishment of the People's Republic of China in 1949, the Chinese Communist Party aimed to end capitalism. Karl Gerth argues that despite the socialist rhetoric of class warfare and egalitarianism, Communist Party policies actually developed a variety of capitalism and expanded consumerism. This negated the goals of the Communist Revolution across the Mao era (1949-1976) down to the present. Through topics related to state attempts to manage what people began to desire - wristwatches and bicycles, films and fashion, leisure travel and Mao badges - Gerth challenges fundamental assumptions about capitalism, communism, and countries conventionally labeled as socialist. In so doing, his provocative history of China suggests how larger forces related to the desire for mass-produced consumer goods reshaped the twentieth-century world and remade people's lives.--
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 1 online resource (xi, 384 pages)
- Isbn
- 9780521868464
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- Unending capitalism : how consumerism negated China's communist revolution
- Title
- Unending capitalism
- Title remainder
- how consumerism negated China's communist revolution
- Statement of responsibility
- Karl Gerth
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- What forces shaped the twentieth-century world? Capitalism and communism are usually seen as engaged in a fight-to-the-death during the Cold War. With the establishment of the People's Republic of China in 1949, the Chinese Communist Party aimed to end capitalism. Karl Gerth argues that despite the socialist rhetoric of class warfare and egalitarianism, Communist Party policies actually developed a variety of capitalism and expanded consumerism. This negated the goals of the Communist Revolution across the Mao era (1949-1976) down to the present. Through topics related to state attempts to manage what people began to desire - wristwatches and bicycles, films and fashion, leisure travel and Mao badges - Gerth challenges fundamental assumptions about capitalism, communism, and countries conventionally labeled as socialist. In so doing, his provocative history of China suggests how larger forces related to the desire for mass-produced consumer goods reshaped the twentieth-century world and remade people's lives.--
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- 1966-
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- Gerth, Karl
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- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- dictionaries
- Series statement
- Cambridge Social Sciences eBooks
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- Consumption (Economics)
- Consumers
- Communism
- Capitalism
- China
- China
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- Unending capitalism : how consumerism negated China's communist revolution, Karl Gerth, (electronic resource)
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- online resource
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- txt
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- rdacontent
- Control code
- CR9781139025225
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (xi, 384 pages)
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9780521868464
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- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
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- c
- Other physical details
- digital, PDF file(s).
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1127137514
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- Unending capitalism : how consumerism negated China's communist revolution, Karl Gerth, (electronic resource)
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
-
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- CR9781139025225
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (xi, 384 pages)
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9780521868464
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- Other physical details
- digital, PDF file(s).
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1127137514
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