Some Critical Comments on Peasant Revolts and Revolutionary Politics in China

Thaxton, Ralph A.

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“…This revolution is part of world history in that peasants in China, for example, historically opposed the ruling court when they suffered from the emperor's abusive decisions on taxation, lack of preparation for a bad harvest, corrupt officials, etc. (Perry, 1980; Thaxton, 1974). Consequently, dynasties changed, leading to a better leadership and ruling philosophy.…”

Section: Toward the Pedagogy Of Seeingmentioning

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Curriculum theorizing of self‐other for change: To see, to observe, and to contemplate through I‐Ching (The Book of Change)

Moon

Guo

2021

The Curriculum Journal

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This study is about the curriculum theorizing of self‐other and transformation. The two authors, both of Asian heritage, share their lived experience and interpretations of Chapter 20 of I‐Ching. This paper revisits a conventional, humanistic division of self‐other as a launching pad to challenge the current discourse on cultural diversity and curriculum change. Mainly, the authors revisit the dichotomous understanding of self‐other and challenge modes of curriculum change that are operated by the logic of meritocracy and individual effort. This investigation of I‐Ching opens up its landscape through a conversation about personal and social change, with an epistemological shift from the self‐other binary, thus imagining curriculum implications for a different society. The process of writing narratives is an epistemological healing process in that writing as inquiry helps revalue indigenous intellectual treasures that have been denigrated by Eurocentric ideologies both historically and politically. This examination of I‐Ching, specifically hexagram 20, will provide educators with an innovative epistemological frame that will allow them to review, rethink, challenge, and possibly advance discourses on seeing, change, and self‐other in curriculum and cultural studies.

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Section: Toward the Pedagogy Of Seeingmentioning

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Curriculum theorizing of self‐other for change: To see, to observe, and to contemplate through I‐Ching (The Book of Change)

Moon

Guo

2021

The Curriculum Journal

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“…108-09). Arguing for the existence of a "revolutionary peasant class subculture," one American scholar, Ralph Thaxton, has gone so far as to equate Communist victory in China's rural areas with a "return to [the] traditional morality" of the peasant village, and has suggested that "the peasant revolts of the two decades prior to the War of Resistance [against Japan] created the sinews of a revolutionary class subculture long before the appearance of the Communist party Eighth Route Army in 1936-1937" (Thaxton 1975; but see also Thaxton 1974, p. 282). Edward Friedman (1974b, pp.…”

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“…As wealthier peasants rented out their land to tenants, special arrangements were made between patron and client for certain subsistence rights which that dyadic relationship was supposed to guarantee (Scott 1972;Thaxton 1975). and "lower" in rural society.…”

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Rebellion and Revolution: The Study of Popular Movements in Chinese History

Wakeman¹

1977

J of Asian Stud

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“…and "lower" in rural society. As wealthier peasants rented out their land to tenants, special arrangements were made between patron and client for certain subsistence rights which that dyadic relationship was supposed to guarantee (Scott 1972;Thaxton 1975). When tenants paid their rents to landowners, they expected in return rights to tools, draft animals, firewood, and so forth.…”

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Rebellion and Revolution: The Study of Popular Movements in Chinese History

Wakeman¹

1977

J of Asian Stud

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During the past twenty-five years, hundreds of studies of Chinese peasant rebellions have appeared in print. Most of these were published in the People's Republic of China, where they represented an effort to create a new revolutionary history of class struggle, intended to replace the elite history written by Confucian historiographers under the empire. Embodying Mao Tse-tung's belief that “the ruthless economic exploitations and political oppression of the peasantry by the landlord class forced the peasants to rise repeatedly in revolt against its rule” (Mao 1961, Vol. III, p. 75), these studies of popular uprisings describe a bewildering variety of social phenomena.

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Some Critical Comments on Peasant Revolts and Revolutionary Politics in China

Cited by 4 publications

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Curriculum theorizing of self‐other for change: To see, to observe, and to contemplate through I‐Ching (The Book of Change)

Curriculum theorizing of self‐other for change: To see, to observe, and to contemplate through I‐Ching (The Book of Change)

Rebellion and Revolution: The Study of Popular Movements in Chinese History

Rebellion and Revolution: The Study of Popular Movements in Chinese History

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