The Rise and Fall of Wu Manyou, China’s First Labour Hero
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The Rise and Fall of Wu Manyou, China’s First Labour Hero. / Sørensen, Bo Ærenlund.
Proletarian China: A Century of Chinese Labour. Verso, 2022. p. 167-175.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review
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T1 - The Rise and Fall of Wu Manyou, China’s First Labour Hero
AU - Sørensen, Bo Ærenlund
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - For a long time in China, the dissemination of stories about heroes hadbeen a mainstay of Confucian education. While in the past it was mostlyemperors, military officers, officials, poets and virtuous widows who wereupheld as models worthy of emulation, towards the end of the 1930s, theChinese Communist Party started its own cult of revolutionary martyrs andheroes in Yan’an. Now model workers were the ones worthy of emulation.Taking a page from the Stakhanovite Movement that had recently emergedin the Soviet Union, in 1939, the Communist leaders began to designatelabour heroes and model workers. In the following years, especially after1942, the Party media would publish articles about peasants, workers,cadres and soldiers who had been conferred these titles, often assigningthem significant prizes. This essay tracks the spectacular rise and fall ofWu Manyou, one of the earliest labour heroes, who was singled out byMao Zedong himself for his achievements.
AB - For a long time in China, the dissemination of stories about heroes hadbeen a mainstay of Confucian education. While in the past it was mostlyemperors, military officers, officials, poets and virtuous widows who wereupheld as models worthy of emulation, towards the end of the 1930s, theChinese Communist Party started its own cult of revolutionary martyrs andheroes in Yan’an. Now model workers were the ones worthy of emulation.Taking a page from the Stakhanovite Movement that had recently emergedin the Soviet Union, in 1939, the Communist leaders began to designatelabour heroes and model workers. In the following years, especially after1942, the Party media would publish articles about peasants, workers,cadres and soldiers who had been conferred these titles, often assigningthem significant prizes. This essay tracks the spectacular rise and fall ofWu Manyou, one of the earliest labour heroes, who was singled out byMao Zedong himself for his achievements.
UR - https://www.versobooks.com/books/4039-proletarian-china
M3 - Bidrag til bog/antologi
SN - 9781839766336
SP - 167
EP - 175
BT - Proletarian China
PB - Verso
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