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SUMMARY:Felix Wemheuer - "Great achievements\, big failures: How to evalu
 ate the social changes of the Mao era"
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DESCRIPTION:In the Mao Era (1949–1976)\, millions of Chinese people exper
 ienced social upward mobility\, while others were marginalised or lost t
 heir lives. Efforts to build a communist society created hopes\, dreams\
 , fear\, enthusiasm\, disillusion\, painful disappointments and nostalgi
 a. The Chinese people made great strides\, but they also experienced tra
 umatic setbacks. The talk will discuss the achievements and failures rel
 ated to economic growth\, access to basic entitlements\, and social mobi
 lity and change. Furthermore\, the question will be discussed how we are
  to judge success. On the question of progress in human rights\, should 
 we confine ourselves to the CCP’s own goals\, or should we instead stres
 s today’s accepted metrics\, such as the UN’s Human Development Index? S
 hould we compare the Mao era to pre-1949 Republican China\, to the relat
 ively peaceful Nanjing Decade under the GMD before the Sino-Japanese War
  (1928–1937)\, to the progress of Taiwan after 1949 or to developments i
 n the Reform era since 1978?\n\n\nSpeaker\n\nFelix Wemheuer is Professor
  for Modern China Studies at the University of Cologne. He belongs to a 
 new generation of Western scholars who are rewriting the history of Maoi
 st China. His publications include Famine Politics in Maoist China and t
 he Soviet Union (Yale UP 2014) and A Social History of Maoist China: Con
 flict and Change\, 1949-1976 (Cambridge UP 2019). Between 2008 and 2010\
 , he was a visiting scholar at the Fairbank Center at Harvard University
 .
STATUS:TENTATIVE
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CLASS:PUBLIC
LOCATION:Manchester China Institute\, Waterloo Place\, Manchester
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