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The People s West Lake: Propaganda, Nature, and Agency in Mao s China, 1949 1976 free ebook download

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Author(s):	Qiliang He

Date:	2024	Format:	pdf	Language:	English	ISBN/ASIN:	0824894898
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The Peoples West Lake examines the Chinese Communist Partys (CCP) efforts to reconfigure Hangzhous urban space, alter the natural environment in West Lake (Xihu), and refashion the citys culture in post-1949 China. It pieces together five initiatives between the 1950s and the 1970s: the dredging of the lake, the construction of the public park of Watching Fish at the Flower Harbor (Huagang guanyu), the afforestation movement, the development of collectivized pig farming around West Lake, and the two campaigns to remove lakeside tombs. These projects were intended to generate visible and tangible resultsa lake with a good depth, a scenic public garden, greener hills surrounding the lake, a growing swine population and rising productivity of fertilizer, and a tourist site cleansed of burial groundswhile also being readily subject to the Partys propaganda. These initiatives were designed both to achieve economic, cultural, and ecological utilities and to forge and popularize a sense of socialist nationhood.

The CCPs endeavor to fundamentally transform the West Lake area also opened up possibilities for both human and nonhuman actors to variously benefit from, get along with, and undermine the political authorities planning. This book thus emphatically foregrounds and unifies the agency of both humans and nonhuman entities that are not necessarily tied to intentionality, bringing into question the legitimacy of the human/nonhuman binary. Author Qiliang He explores the agency of both humans and nonhumans (including water, microbes, aquatic plants, the park, pigs, trees, pests, and tombs) to affect, deflect, and undercut the CCPs sociopolitical programs, thereby diminishing the efficacy of state propaganda. Highlighting the nonpurposive agency of both actors problematizes the long-held resistance-accommodation paradigm, which presumes the resisters a priori subjectivities independent of the socialist system, in studying the state-society relationship in the Peoples Republic of China. Using a project-based approach,
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