H-PRC is the H-Net presence of the PRC History Group, a network of scholars with interests in the history of the People’s Republic of China. We define history broadly, to encompass a wide variety of disciplinary approaches, and we understand the history of the PRC to include eras prior to the official change of state power in 1949.
Apologies for the self-promotion... I am pleased to announce the release of my new book:
Alexander C. Cook, The Cultural Revolution on Trial: Mao and the Gang of Four (Cambridge University Press, 2016)
I am writing an essay on the urban commune movement in Beijing and I am finding it difficult to distinguish, in writing, between large factories (state or collectively owned) and the small (female-staffed) factories created during the movement.
For the sake of brevity and clarity, I am tempted to use the term SOE (State Owned Enterprise) for the former, but I am aware that it came into currency in the reform era, so it might be misleading and anachronistic. I would obviously add a footnote on the usage.
Any thoughts or suggestions?
The PRC History Group presents the latest installment in the Document of the Month series, curated by Michael Schoenhals. View the entire series at prchistory.org.
"劳动是必修课"！——复旦大学外国留学生《守则》、《考勤制度》、《生活制度》等（1975年）
(click on the title to view the document)
The two latest issues of Yesterday are now available at http://prchistory.org/yesterday/
H-PRC members might be especially interested in issue #79, which includes a 20-page list of names (with short biographical sketches) of people in the Chinese film industry who died in the course of the Cultural Revolution (including actors, directors, script writers, translators, photographers, etc.).
This is a good review of five works (in English and Chinese) on the Maoist era.
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2016/10/27/china-the-virtues-of-the-awful-convulsion/
Delia Davin, a scholar who helped bring questions of gender to the center of China Studies, has died at home in Leeds, England after a long illness. She was Emeritus Professor of Chinese Studies in the School of Languages, Cultures and Societies at the University of Leeds.
Dear colleagues,
With apologies for cross-posting, I am pleased to announce the recent publication of my book
Yi Wu, Negotiating Rural Land Ownership in Southwest China: State, Village, Family (A Study of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University). University of Hawaii Press, 2016, 304 pages, ISBN: 978-0824846770.
Sights and Sounds of the Cold War in the Sinophone World
March 25-26, 2017
Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Washington University in St. Louis
Dear colleagues,
My colleague is creating a course on everyday life under totalitarlian/authoritarian regimes and is looking for suggestions on Maoist China - either about ordinary peoples’ experiences or on things like the cult of personality, etc. A point of comparison in the Soviet context would be Sheila Fitzpatrick’s Everyday Stalinism.
Thanks,
Macabe Keliher
Assistant Professor
Department of History
West Virginia University
http://ssrn.com/author=2489790
