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Mobilization Nation: Mass Movements in the People's Republic of China

Barnes, Melvin L, Jr.
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=toledo1365161929

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2013, Master of Arts, University of Toledo, History.
The purpose of this thesis is to investigate the role played by two mobilization campaigns in the development of a modern Chinese national identity in the People's Republic of China. After the triumph of the Communist Party at the conclusion of the Chinese Civil War mobilization campaigns became the primary force establishing the traits of a new Chinese identity. The Land Reform Campaign initially began as a divisive campaign designed to physically eliminate undesirable classes, yet by the conclusion of the Chinese Civil War it became a unifying movement for the advancement of the nation. On the other hand, the Resist America-Aid Korea Campaign began in response to American involvement in the Korean War. As the conflict raged across the Bohai Gulf millions of Chinese were mobilized to fight, what they interpreted to be American imperialism in Korea. Hundreds of thousands of Chinese men and women participated in the most direct way possible, by fighting imperialism on the Korean peninsula. Millions of other Chinese participated in the campaign by producing weapons, clothing, and buying bonds in support of the war effort. Essentially, resisting America helped to create a Chinese national self by defining New China in contrast to an imperialist other, embodied by the United States. Together these campaigns increasingly fostered a sense of what it meant to be a citizen in the People's Republic of China.
Roberto Padilla, II (Advisor)
Diane Britton (Committee Member)
Charles Beatty Medina (Committee Member)
72 p.
Asian Studies; History; Modern History
Nationalism; National Identity; China; Resist America Aid Korea Campaign; Land Reform Campaign; Yundong

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  • Barnes, Jr., M. L. (2013). Mobilization Nation: Mass Movements in the People's Republic of China [Master's thesis, University of Toledo]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=toledo1365161929

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Barnes, Jr., Melvin. Mobilization Nation: Mass Movements in the People's Republic of China. 2013. University of Toledo, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=toledo1365161929.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Barnes, Jr., Melvin. "Mobilization Nation: Mass Movements in the People's Republic of China." Master's thesis, University of Toledo, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=toledo1365161929

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