How did the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution affect everyone's lives? Why did people re/negotiate their identities to adopt revolutionary roles and duties? How did people, who lived with different self-understandings and social relations, inevitably acquire and practice revolutionary identities, each in their own light? This book plunges into the contexts of these concerns to seek different relations that reveal the Revolution's different meanings. Furthermore, this book shows that scholars of the Cultural Revolution encountered emotional and intellectual challenges as they cared about the real people who owned an identity resource that could trigger an imagined thread of solidarity in their minds. The authors believe that the Revolution's magnitude and pervasive scope always resulted in individualized engagements that have significant and differing consequences for those struggling in their micro-context. It has impacted a future with unpredictable collective implications in terms of ethnicity, gender, memory, scholarship, or career. The Cultural Revolution is, therefore, an evolving relation beneath the rise of China that will neither fade away nor sanction integrative paths.
Professor Chih-yu Shih teaches China studies, anthropology of knowledge and international relations theory in the Department of Political Science of National Taiwan University in the capacity of National Chair and University Chair. Determined to recollect and re-present intellectual heritage in Asia, he has devoted throughout his academic career for the past 35 years to researching, teaching, and writing on the cultural and political agency of human society in Asia. His most recent publications include Eros of International Relations (2021) and Post-Chineseness (2022). His research project "Intellectual History of China Studies" can be accessed at http://www.china-studies.taipei/.
Mariko Tanigaki (PhD) is Professor in the Department of Area Studies, The University of Tokyo. Her research interests cover contemporary Hong Kong studies and southern China studies. Her publications include The Morphing South China and Contemporary Chinese Networks (in Japanese, co-edited, 2014), which won The Japan Consortium for Area Studies award for Collaborative Research, China Studies and Views toward China in Post-war Japan, (in Japanese, co-edited, 2018), Colonial Legacies and Contemporary Studies of China and Chineseness: Unlearning Binaries, Strategizing Self (co-edited, 2020), and Japan and Asia Business, Political and Cultural Interactions (edited, 2022).
Tina S Clemente is a Professor and the Assistant to the Dean for Academic Affairs at the Asian Center, University of the Philippines Diliman. She earned a PhD and MA in economics and a BS in business economics at the same university. Her research interests include China Studies, Philippines–China economic relations, development studies, and economic history. She is editor-in-chief of the Chinese Studies Journal and is the lead editor of China Studies in the Philippines: Intellectual Paths and the Formation of a Field (2018, Routledge). Her most recent publication is Discourse, Empirics, and Perceptions on Investment and Aid: Reconsidering Chinese and Japanese Relations with the Philippines (2022, Springer).
