The Cultural Revolution and its legacies in international perspective

This article explores the rhetoric and reality of the Cultural Revolution as an international phenomenon, examining (through published and oral histories) the ways in which it was perceived and interpreted beyond China. It focuses in particular on the diverse impact of Maoist ideas and practice on the counter-culture movement of western Europe and North America during the late 1960s and 1970s. Within Europe, Cultural Revolution Maoism galvanised Dadaist student protest, nurtured feminist and gay rights activism, and legitimised urban guerrilla terrorism. In the United States, meanwhile, it bolstered a broad programme of anti-racist civil rights campaigns, and narrow Marxist-Leninist party-building. Despite Mao’s hopes to launch a global permanent revolution, it appears that over the long term, enthusiasm for the Cultural Revolution in western Europe, the United States and parts of southeast Asia helped splinter the radical left and assisted the right in consolidating its power through the 1980s and beyond

The uses of foreigners in Mao-era China: ‘Techniques of Hospitality’ and international image-building in the People’s Republic, 1949-1976

This article focuses on the inner workings of Mao-era China’s ‘Foreign Affairs’ system (waishi xitong): the complex, comprehensive web of bureaucracy woven after 1949 to monitor and control Chinese contact with the outside world. It explores one of the channels along which the People’s Republic between 1949 and 1976 tried to project international, soft-power messages beyond conventional diplomatic channels: the inviting of so-called ‘foreign guests’ (waibin) on carefully planned tours around China, often with all or at least some expenses paid. Earlier accounts of this hospitality have evoked a machine of perfect control, carefully judged to manipulate visitors and rehearsed to ensure flawless performances by Chinese hosts. Using memoirs and Chinese archival documents, the article discusses the attitude of top-level leaders to such visits, the way in which trips were prepared and planned, and the successes and weaknesses of the system. It argues that the PRC’s hosting programme had a domestic as well as an international purpose. Although foreigners were the official target (and indeed, Maoist China’s ‘techniques of hospitality’ garnered some rich international political dividends) the government also used the preparation for and execution of hosting duties to underscore at home the triumph of the revolution

Undefeated shadow : from the destruction of the "collaborationists" to their survival in post-war France, 1944-1954

La destruction de trois ensembles « collaborationnistes » (Parti populaire français, Rassemblement national populaire, mouvance « cagoularde ») en 1944 et 1945 ne signe pas leur disparition définitive. Au contraire, le Parti populaire français inspire le renouveau de l’extreme droite après la guerre et contribue au phénomène populiste. Les anciens du Rassemblement national populaire participent à l’effort anticommuniste de la guerre froide et le vertèbrent. Quant-aux « cagoulards », ils se sont toujours éparpillés dans les différents camps (collaborationnisme, pétainisme, gaullisme, Résistance). On observe leur redéploiement, dans l’anticommunisme, dans l’européisme de l’après-Guerre et dans la droite modérée.On observe ainsi entre 1944 et 1954 un phénomène de dissémination des extrémistes dans la France politique, leurs idées rencontrant plusieurs thèmes de l’après-Guerre : anticommunisme, réconciliation franco-allemande, construction européenne...The destruction of three « colaborationist » collectives (Parti Populaire Français, Rassemblement National Populaire, and « cagoulard » movement) does not mean they completely disappear.On the contrary, the Parti Populaire Français inspires the renewal of the post-war extreme right and contributes to the « populist » phenomenon.Those who arise from the Rassemblement National Populaire are part of the an-ticomunist effort during the Cold War and structure it.Concerning the « cagoulards », they have always be scattered among the different factions (collaborationism, petainism, gaullism, Resistance). We observe their redeployment in anticommunism, europeism and the moderate right wing.We finally spot between 1944 and 1954 the dissemination of the extreme righ-tists in the french political field, their ideas meeting several post-war topics : anticommunism, french-german reconciliation, european construction..

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