@article{1454760,
      recid = {1454760},
      author = {Shi, Yifan,},
      title = {Living with the party : how leisure shaped a new China /},
      pages = {1 online resource (xiii, 272 pages) :},
      abstract = {This book explores the subcultures, cultural trends and  regulations of leisure and subcultures among young people  in Beijing from 1949 to the 1980s. It complicates our  understanding of the successes of the CCP and the nature of  those successes -- more a synergy or synthesis than victory  over society or defeat. It argues that while the CCP aimed  to direct the most private sphere in people's everyday life  (i.e., leisure), it did not achieve this goal by coercive  means, but by appealing ways through organized leisure  activities. This book suggests that although elements of  youth subcultures can be observed throughout the Mao era,  we should not treat them as a way of passive resistance.  Instead, we must position these subcultures between  different layers of the Party's leisure regulation to  examine what the CCP actually achieved. Many people who  engaged in subcultures defied the blatant politicization of  their leisure, some might have defied the process of  collectivization, but few defied the process of  institutionalization during which people did not find state  intervention contradictory to their own way of  pleasure-seeking. This book also suggests that instead of  regarding the Deng Xiaoping era as a breakaway from Maoist  interventionist rule, we need to see the historical  continuity as revealed by the Party's uninterrupted policy  of leisure regulation. Thought provoking and at times  amusing, this book will interest sinologists, historians,  and scholars of China's social form. Yifan Shi is Assistant  Professor of modern Chinese history and politics at School  of Politics and International Relations, East China Normal  University.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1454760},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-0208-8},
}