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Jiayin Zhang - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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when politics froze fashion the effect of the Cultural Revolution on naming in beijing
Social Science Research Network, 2014Co-Authors: Elena Obukhova, Ezra W Zuckerman, Jiayin ZhangAbstract:The authors examine the popularity of boys’ given names in Beijing before and after the onset of the Cultural Revolution to clarify how exogenous and endogenous factors interact to shape fashion. Whereas recent work in the sociology of culture emphasizes the importance of endogenous processes in explaining fashion, their analysis demonstrates two ways in which politics shaped Cultural expression during the Cultural Revolution: by promoting forms of expression reflecting prevailing political ideology and by limiting individuals’ willingness to act differently. As argued by Lieberson and developed further in this article, the second condition is important because endogenous fashion cycles require a critical mass of individuals who seek to differentiate themselves from common practice. Exogenous factors can influence the operation of the endogenous factors. The authors discuss the implications of their study for understanding the nature of conformity under authoritarian regimes and social conditions supporting individual expression.
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when politics froze fashion the effect of the Cultural Revolution on naming in beijing
American Journal of Sociology, 2014Co-Authors: Elena Obukhova, Ezra W Zuckerman, Jiayin ZhangAbstract:The authors examine the popularity of boys’ given names in Beijing before and after the onset of the Cultural Revolution to clarify how exogenous and endogenous factors interact to shape fashion. Whereas recent work in the sociology of culture emphasizes the importance of endogenous processes in explaining fashion, their analysis demonstrates two ways in which politics shaped Cultural expression during the Cultural Revolution: by promoting forms of expression reflecting prevailing political ideology and by limiting individuals’ willingness to act differently. As argued by Lieberson and developed further in this article, the second condition is important because endogenous fashion cycles require a critical mass of individuals who seek to differentiate themselves from common practice. Exogenous factors can influence the operation of the endogenous factors. The authors discuss the implications of their study for understanding the nature of conformity under authoritarian regimes and social conditions supporti...
Peigang Wang - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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health status in a transitional society urban rural disparities from a dynamic perspective in china
Population Health Metrics, 2018Co-Authors: Junfeng Jiang, Peigang WangAbstract:The phenomenon of urban-rural segmentation has emerged and is remarkable, and the health disparities between rural and urban China should be stressed. Based on data from the Chinese General Social Survey from 2005 to 2013, this study not only explored the net age, period, and cohort effects of self-rated health, but compared these effects between rural and urban China from a dynamic perspective through hierarchical age-period-cohort-cross-classified random effects model. Urban-rural disparities, as well as work status and gender disparities in health increased with age, in line with the cumulative advantage/disadvantage effects theory, while marital status disparities in health declining with age was in line with the age-as-leveler effects theory. The war cohort, famine cohort, later Cultural Revolution cohort, and early reform cohort had poorer health than did those in the early China cohort, economic recovery cohort, and later reform cohort. The economic crisis period, war cohort, baby boomer, and early Cultural Revolution cohort encountered larger urban-rural health disparities, while the early China cohort and early reform cohort experienced smaller urban-rural disparities in health. Population health is closely related to social context and health care development. It is necessary to keep economic development stable and boost medical technology improvements and the construction of the health care system.
Andrew G Walder - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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the dynamics of collapse in an authoritarian regime china in 19671
American Journal of Sociology, 2017Co-Authors: Andrew G WalderAbstract:Theories of rebellion and Revolution neglect short-run processes within state structures that can undermine their internal cohesion. These processes are evident in the rapid unraveling of the Chinese state early in the Cultural Revolution. Portrayed in past accounts as a culmination of student and worker insurgencies, an early 1967 wave of power seizures was in fact accelerated by an internal rebellion of bureaucrats against their own superiors. These led to the widespread collapse of local governments, diverting the course of the Cultural Revolution and forcing intervention by the armed forces. An event-history analysis of the diffusion of power seizures across a hierarchy of 2,215 government jurisdictions portrays a top-down cascade that spread deeply into rural regions with few students and workers and little popular protest. The internal rebellions were generated endogenously by events during the course of these upheavals, as individual officials reacted to shifting circumstances that threatened their...
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bending the arc of chinese history the Cultural Revolution s paradoxical legacy
The China Quarterly, 2016Co-Authors: Andrew G WalderAbstract:Contrary to its initiators’ intentions, the Cultural Revolution laid political foundations for a transition to a market-oriented economy whilst also creating circumstances that helped to ensure the cohesion and survival of China's Soviet-style party-state. The Cultural Revolution left the Chinese Communist Party and civilian state structures weak and in flux, and drastically weakened entrenched bureaucratic interests that might have blocked market reform. The weakening of central government structures created a decentralized planned economy, the regional and local leaders of which were receptive to initial market-oriented opportunities. The economic and technological backwardness fostered by the Cultural Revolution left little support for maintaining the status quo. Mao put Deng Xiaoping in charge of rebuilding the Party and economy briefly in the mid-1970s before purging him a second time, inadvertently making him the standard-bearer for post-Mao rebuilding and recovery. Mutual animosities with the Soviet Union provoked by Maoist polemics led to a surprising strategic turn to the United States and other Western countries in the early 1970s. The resulting economic and political ties subsequently advanced the agenda of reform and opening. China's first post-Mao decade was therefore one of rebuilding and renewal under a pre-eminent leader who was able to overcome opposition to a new course. The impact of this legacy becomes especially clear when contrasted with the Soviet Union in the 1980s, where political circumstances were starkly different, and where Gorbachev's attempts to implement similar changes in the face of entrenched bureaucratic opposition led to the collapse and dismemberment of the Soviet state.
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nanjing s second Cultural Revolution of 1974
The China Quarterly, 2012Co-Authors: Guoqiang Dong, Andrew G WalderAbstract:China experienced extensive civil strife in 1974, as elite factionalism during the “criticize Lin Biao and Confucius” campaign revived popular contention in the provinces. Past research has characterized these conflicts as a “second Cultural Revolution ”– an offensive by resurgent red guards and rebels to resist the restoration of purged civilian officials to powerful posts. In Nanjing, however, the conflicts were of an entirely different nature. Civilian cadres directed the campaign against army officers who still dominated civilian government throughout the province. Popular protests in Nanjing were not led by former rebels, whose ranks had been decimated by unusually harsh military suppression campaigns, but were instead protests by ordinary citizens who had suffered in the purges and rustication campaigns of the late 1960s. While the campaign in cities like Hangzhou and Wuhan was an offensive by resurgent rebels against civilian officials, in Nanjing civilian officials used the campaign to ensure their victory over military rivals. The Hangzhou and Wuhan pattern revived the politics of the 1960s, while the Nanjing pattern anticipated the protests against Cultural Revolution abuses characteristic of the end of the Mao era.
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local politics in the chinese Cultural Revolution nanjing under military control
The Journal of Asian Studies, 2011Co-Authors: Dong Guoqiang, Andrew G WalderAbstract:China’s protracted regional conflicts of 1967 and 1968 have long been understood as struggles between conservative and radical forces whose opposed interests were so deeply rooted in existing patterns of power and privilege that they defied the imposition of military control. This study of Nanjing, a key provincial capital that experienced prolonged factional conflict, yields a new explanation: the conflicts were prolonged precisely because they could not be characterized as pitting“conservatives”against“radicals”, making it difficult for central officials, local military forces, or Mao Zedong to decide how to resolve them. Furthermore, Beijing officials, regional military forces, and local civilian cadres were themselves divided against one another, exacerbating and prolonging local conflicts. In competing for approval from central authorities, local factions adopted opportunistic and rapidly shifting political stances designed to portray their opponents as reactionary conservatives—charges that had no basis in fact. T HECHINESECulturalRevolution—in particular the initial two years of mass political conflict that devastated China’s civilian government—was a traumatic and pivotal event in modern Chinese history. It was intensively chronicled and analyzed outside China in its immediate aftermath, and for much of the subsequent decade by social scientists eager to conceptualize and interpret the conflict in structural terms. Academic interest in these events quickly waned outside China in the post-Mao era, almost forgotten, as the country’s remarkable change of course attracted the bulk of scholarly attention. Within China, academic research on the subject could not begin until the post-Mao era, but it was slowed by political sensitivities and discouraged as a promising topic for academic research. With few exceptions, research by historians within China paid scant attention to the social science generalizations of the first wave of foreign scholarship, and despite the availability of much richer source materials in recent years, foreign scholars showed limited interest in re-examining the early structural interpretations of these political events. Despite extensive coverage in memoirs, fiction, and documentary film in recent years of such topics as the
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the chinese Cultural Revolution as history
2006Co-Authors: Joseph W Esherick, Paul G Pickowicz, Andrew G WalderAbstract:@fmct:Contents @toc4:Acknowledgements iii @toc2:1. The Chinese Cultural Revolution as History: an Introduction 000 @au:Joseph W. Esherick, Paul G. Pickowicz, Andrew G. Walder @toc2:2. Passion, Reflection and Survival: Political Choices of Red Guards at Qinghua University, June 1966July 1968 000 @au:Xiaowei Zheng @toc2:3. To Protect and Preserve: Resisting the "Destroy the Four Olds" Campaign, 19661967 000 @au:Dahpon David Ho @toc2:4. Mass Killings in the Cultural Revolution: A Study of Three Provinces 000 @au:Yang Su @toc2:5. The Death of a Landlord: Moral Predicament in Rural China, 19681969 000 @au:Jiangsui He @toc2:6. Staging Xiaojinzhuang: The City in the Countryside, 19741976 000 @au:Jeremy Brown @toc2:7. Labor Created Humanity: Cultural Revolution Science on Its Own Terms 000 @au:Sigrid Schmalzer @toc2:8. To Be Somebody: Li Qinglin, Run-of-the-Mill Cultural Revolution Showstopper 000 @au:Jun Zhang @toc2:9. The Sublime and the Profane: A Comparative Analysis of Two Fictional Narratives about Sent-down Youth 000 @au:Liyan Qin @toc4:Contributors 000 Glossary 000 Notes 000 Selected Bibliography 000 Index 000
Elena Obukhova - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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when politics froze fashion the effect of the Cultural Revolution on naming in beijing
Social Science Research Network, 2014Co-Authors: Elena Obukhova, Ezra W Zuckerman, Jiayin ZhangAbstract:The authors examine the popularity of boys’ given names in Beijing before and after the onset of the Cultural Revolution to clarify how exogenous and endogenous factors interact to shape fashion. Whereas recent work in the sociology of culture emphasizes the importance of endogenous processes in explaining fashion, their analysis demonstrates two ways in which politics shaped Cultural expression during the Cultural Revolution: by promoting forms of expression reflecting prevailing political ideology and by limiting individuals’ willingness to act differently. As argued by Lieberson and developed further in this article, the second condition is important because endogenous fashion cycles require a critical mass of individuals who seek to differentiate themselves from common practice. Exogenous factors can influence the operation of the endogenous factors. The authors discuss the implications of their study for understanding the nature of conformity under authoritarian regimes and social conditions supporting individual expression.
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when politics froze fashion the effect of the Cultural Revolution on naming in beijing
American Journal of Sociology, 2014Co-Authors: Elena Obukhova, Ezra W Zuckerman, Jiayin ZhangAbstract:The authors examine the popularity of boys’ given names in Beijing before and after the onset of the Cultural Revolution to clarify how exogenous and endogenous factors interact to shape fashion. Whereas recent work in the sociology of culture emphasizes the importance of endogenous processes in explaining fashion, their analysis demonstrates two ways in which politics shaped Cultural expression during the Cultural Revolution: by promoting forms of expression reflecting prevailing political ideology and by limiting individuals’ willingness to act differently. As argued by Lieberson and developed further in this article, the second condition is important because endogenous fashion cycles require a critical mass of individuals who seek to differentiate themselves from common practice. Exogenous factors can influence the operation of the endogenous factors. The authors discuss the implications of their study for understanding the nature of conformity under authoritarian regimes and social conditions supporti...
Ezra W Zuckerman - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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when politics froze fashion the effect of the Cultural Revolution on naming in beijing
Social Science Research Network, 2014Co-Authors: Elena Obukhova, Ezra W Zuckerman, Jiayin ZhangAbstract:The authors examine the popularity of boys’ given names in Beijing before and after the onset of the Cultural Revolution to clarify how exogenous and endogenous factors interact to shape fashion. Whereas recent work in the sociology of culture emphasizes the importance of endogenous processes in explaining fashion, their analysis demonstrates two ways in which politics shaped Cultural expression during the Cultural Revolution: by promoting forms of expression reflecting prevailing political ideology and by limiting individuals’ willingness to act differently. As argued by Lieberson and developed further in this article, the second condition is important because endogenous fashion cycles require a critical mass of individuals who seek to differentiate themselves from common practice. Exogenous factors can influence the operation of the endogenous factors. The authors discuss the implications of their study for understanding the nature of conformity under authoritarian regimes and social conditions supporting individual expression.
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when politics froze fashion the effect of the Cultural Revolution on naming in beijing
American Journal of Sociology, 2014Co-Authors: Elena Obukhova, Ezra W Zuckerman, Jiayin ZhangAbstract:The authors examine the popularity of boys’ given names in Beijing before and after the onset of the Cultural Revolution to clarify how exogenous and endogenous factors interact to shape fashion. Whereas recent work in the sociology of culture emphasizes the importance of endogenous processes in explaining fashion, their analysis demonstrates two ways in which politics shaped Cultural expression during the Cultural Revolution: by promoting forms of expression reflecting prevailing political ideology and by limiting individuals’ willingness to act differently. As argued by Lieberson and developed further in this article, the second condition is important because endogenous fashion cycles require a critical mass of individuals who seek to differentiate themselves from common practice. Exogenous factors can influence the operation of the endogenous factors. The authors discuss the implications of their study for understanding the nature of conformity under authoritarian regimes and social conditions supporti...
