Moving The Masses: Emotion Work In The Chinese Revolution

IF 1.3 2区社会学 Q3 SOCIOLOGY

Mobilization Pub Date : 2002-06-01 DOI:10.17813/MAIQ.7.2.70RG70L202524UW6

E. J. Perry

引用次数: 147

Abstract

Previous explanations of the Chinese Communist revolution have highlighted (variously) the role of ideology, organization, and/or social structure. While acknowledging the importance of all these factors, this article draws attention to a largely neglected feature of the revolutionary process: the mass mobilization of emotions. Building upon pre-existing traditions of popular protest and political culture, the Communists systematized “emotion work” as part of a conscious strategy of psychological engineering. Attention to the emotional dimensions of mass mobilization was a key ingredient in the Communists’ revolutionary victory, distinguishing their approach from that of their Guomindang rivals. Moreover, patterns of emotion work developed during the wartime years lived on in the People’s Republic of China, shaping a succession of state-sponsored mass campaigns under Mao. Even in post-Mao China, this legacy continues to exert a powerful influence over the attitudes and actions of state authorities and ordinary citizens alike.

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感动群众:中国革命中的情感工作

以前对中国共产党革命的解释强调了意识形态、组织和/或社会结构的作用。在承认所有这些因素的重要性的同时，本文提请注意革命过程中一个很大程度上被忽视的特征:情绪的大规模动员。建立在先前的大众抗议和政治文化传统之上，共产党将“情感工作”系统化，作为有意识的心理工程策略的一部分。对群众动员的情感层面的关注是共产党取得革命胜利的一个关键因素，使他们的方法区别于他们的国民党对手。此外，战时发展起来的情感工作模式在中华人民共和国得以延续，形成了毛领导下一系列由国家发起的群众运动。即使在后毛时代的中国，这一遗产仍然对国家当局和普通公民的态度和行为产生着强大的影响。

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Mobilization SOCIOLOGY-

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期刊介绍： Mobilization: An International Quarterly is the premier journal of research specializing in social movements, protests, insurgencies, revolutions, and other forms of contentious politics. Mobilization was first published in 1996 to fill the need for a scholarly review of research that focused exclusively with social movements, protest and collective action. Mobilization is fully peer-reviewed and widely indexed. A 2003 study, when Mobilization was published semiannually, showed that its citation index rate was 1.286, which placed it among the top ten sociology journals. Today, Mobilization is published four times a year, in March, June, September, and December. The editorial board is composed of thirty internationally recognized scholars from political science, sociology and social psychology. The goal of Mobilization is to provide a forum for global, scholarly dialogue. It is currently distributed to the top international research libraries and read by the most engaged scholars in the field. We hope that through its wide distribution, different research strategies and theoretical/conceptual approaches will be shared among the global community of social movement scholars, encouraging a collaborative process that will further the development of a cumulative social science.