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From Two Camps to Three Worlds: The Party Worldview in PRC Textbooks (1949–1966)*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 September 2013

Miin-ling Yu
Miin-ling Yu*
Affiliation:
Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica, Taiwan. Email: mhmly@gate.sinica.edu.tw.
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Abstract

The worldview as reflected in the textbooks of the People's Republic of China during 1949–1966 centred on Party-led nationalism, anti-imperialism and anti-colonialism. This article emphasizes both the continuities and changes in nationalist ideology during the Republican and Maoist periods. First, textbooks in Maoist China presented the imperialist powers as shifting away from Britain, Russia and Japan under the KMT government and towards the United States (since 1949) and the Soviet Union (since the 1960s), and emphasized class struggle. Second, the CCP had far greater control over the production of textbooks than the KMT. In this sense, the CCP truly carried out “partified” (danghua) education, a goal shared by the KMT which it never had the ability to achieve. In addition, “the language of Cultural Revolution” appeared with the outbreak of the Korean War. In other words, the education that cultivated revolutionary successors began in the early 1950s.

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textbooknationalismsocialist campthe third worldimperialismcolonialismMaoist China
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The China Quarterly , Volume 215 , September 2013 , pp. 682 - 702
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The author would like to thank Sally Paine, Kuisong Yang, Marilyn Young and Peter Zarrow for their valuable comments.

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