摘要
This special issue grows out of a shared research interest in the state-building process during the formative years of the People＇s Republic of China （roughly defined, 1949-66） and its profound political, social, economic, and cultural consequences. Five articles in this issue demonstrate that the Communist Party of China made a great effort to mobilize different political constituents, social classes, professional groups, and cultural communities to consolidate its rule and advance its revolutionary agendas. Governing a deeply diverse and discontented society, the Party created a system of control and mobilization based on the combined mechanisms of political indoctrination, bureaucratic intervention, neighborhood surveillance, and social voluntarism. Communist rule in the 1950s and early 1960s created new cultural forms, business practices, and a new framework under which the party-state＇s political agenda and bureaucratic apparatus interacted with individual lives.
This special issue grows out of a shared research interest in the state-building process during the formative years of the People＇s Republic of China （roughly defined, 1949-66） and its profound political, social, economic, and cultural consequences. Five articles in this issue demonstrate that the Communist Party of China made a great effort to mobilize different political constituents, social classes, professional groups, and cultural communities to consolidate its rule and advance its revolutionary agendas. Governing a deeply diverse and discontented society, the Party created a system of control and mobilization based on the combined mechanisms of political indoctrination, bureaucratic intervention, neighborhood surveillance, and social voluntarism. Communist rule in the 1950s and early 1960s created new cultural forms, business practices, and a new framework under which the party-state＇s political agenda and bureaucratic apparatus interacted with individual lives.
