Cover

Asian Arguments

About the Authors

Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Terminology: Maoism and Leftism

The Religion of Maoism

The Question of Charisma

1. The Tale of the Victim, Zhang Zhixin

Sources

2. The Chairman’s Life After Death

Mao 2.0

Mao and the Fifth Generation Leaders

Having Your Cake and Eating It: Mao and Contradiction

Twilight of Harmonious China

Mao Overboard: Maoism in the Outside World

3. Defender of the Faith: Deng Liqun and Leftism

The Life of a Leftist

What Influences Post-Mao Leftists?

The Fight for the Right Path: 1980s Reforms and the Rise of Chinese Capitalism

Existential Crisis: 1989, the Fall of the Soviet Union and the ‘End of History’

Deng contra Deng: The Final Showdown

Sources

4. Maoism in Motion: The Red Campaign of Bo Xilai in Chongqing

Aristocratic Roots

The Roots of the Chongqing Model

The Divine Right of the Party to Rule?

Seeing Red, Singing Mao

Demise of a Good Maoist

5. Blurred Lines: Mao, the CPC and Chinese Society Today

Red Tourism

Xi Jinping on Mao

Revolutionary Martyrs and the Party’s Fight Against Historical Nihilism

Mao as Saviour: The Case of Cairo Declaration

6. Mad About Mao

Modern Mao Fever

What Is Communism Anyway?

Searching for Utopia in Cyberspace

The Online Language of the Maoists

Mao Was No Softie

Bi Fujian: The Cost of Mocking Mao

Spring and Autumn Annals: The Cost of Disrespecting Martyrs

Capitalism and Charity

Crazy About Collectives

Intellectuals and the Leftist Critique of Modern China

A Maoist Abroad: Li Minqi

Conclusion: Mao’s Second Coming

Who Is Mao?

Echt Mao

A Failure in Life, a Success in Death

Tomorrow’s Mao

Selected Reading

Notes

Index