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  • Introduction

  • Edited by Daniel Leese, University of Freiburg, Amanda Shuman, University of Freiburg
  • Book:
    Justice After Mao
    Published online:
    31 August 2023
    Print publication:
    14 September 2023, pp 1-20

  • Summary

    The Introduction broadly contextualizes how the CCP dealt with historical injustices after Mao Zedong’s death. It provides the necessary framework for understanding the processes and practices that are further explored and examined in the following sections and chapters of the book while shedding light on how selectively applied approaches today associated with the concept of transitional justice may serve to strengthen rather than subvert authoritarian rule. It also highlights the most outstanding features of the CCP’s politics of historical justice before placing these strategies against the backdrop of recent debates on crucial paradigms of transitional justice. Specifically, it introduces two key channels (“property” and “the mechanics of rehabilitation”) through which the government and public sought to concretely redress Mao-era historical injustices and efforts to construct meaningful “truths” of these injustices (“the politics of truth” and “memory”)

Justice After Mao
  • The Politics of Historical Truth in the People's Republic of China
  • Edited by Daniel Leese, Amanda Shuman
  • Published online:
    31 August 2023
    Print publication:
    14 September 2023
  • How can a dictatorship cope with the legacy of injustices and atrocities committed in its own name? This was one of the pressing questions the Chinese Communist Party leadership faced after the death of Mao Zedong in September 1976 and the end of the Cultural Revolution. This collection presents ground-breaking, original research to address the question of historical justice in the Party's attempt to survive politically despite rampant factionalism and widespread political persecution. The volume traces complex questions of property restitution, fostering reconciliation within local communities, and establishing new standards of truth. Contributions also investigate how various actors remember the period in the present. The post-Mao period provides a lens through which to view strategies of coping with a violent past under state socialism, highlighting how selectively applied approaches now associated with the concept of transitional justice may even serve to strengthen rather than subvert authoritarian rule.

  • 3 - Producing Socialist Bodies

  • from Part I - Revolution and the Transnational
  • Edited by Anja Blanke, Freie Universität Berlin, Julia C. Strauss, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, Klaus Mühlhahn, Freie Universität Berlin
  • Book:
    Revolutionary Transformations
    Published online:
    06 April 2023
    Print publication:
    13 April 2023, pp 69-96

  • Summary

    Huang Hongjiu is a ninety-year-old former PRC athlete in swimming and water polo. Born and raised in Indonesia, he attended the World Festival for Youth and Students held in Berlin in 1951 – as a member of the Indonesian delegation. The delegation was invited to Beijing, where Chinese sports leaders then recruited Huang and several teammates to “return to the motherland” and help build a new state-sponsored swimming program. Over the next few years, Huang and the others learned Chinese and competed internationally for the PRC. This chapter seeks to understand how athletes such as Huang, and the networks within which they were embedded, were crucial to the Chinese party-state’s national project of the early 1950s. Athletes like Huang helped a nascent PRC initiate new state-sponsored sports programs and, through sport, solidify the new state’s participation in the Soviet-led socialist world. Tracing the lives of these athletes and early PRC sports networks shows how China’s national sports development was a thoroughly transnational project. This chapter also uses sport in order to argue more generally that a transnational perspective is needed to understand the early PRC.