Maoism at the Grassroots, edited by Matthew D. Johnson and Jeremy Brown, examines the first decades of the People’s Republic of China from the perspective of ordinary people.
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Maoism at the Grassroots
with Matthew Johnson and Jeremy Brown
Tuesday, May 10, 5:30 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.
National Committee on U.S.-China Relations, New York City
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Maoism at the Grassroots, edited by Matthew D. Johnson and Jeremy Brown, examines the first decades of the People’s Republic of China from the perspective of ordinary people. While the Mao era is often regarded as a time of Party-state dominance—achieved through massive political campaigns such as the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution—the authors in this volume marshal new research to reveal a striking diversity of individual views and local experiences during China’s years of high socialism. Bringing together contributions from scholars in China, Europe, North America, and Taiwan, Maoism at the Grassroots offers fresh insights into the day-to-day realities of life under Mao. Join us as Matthew Johnson and Jeremy Brown reevaluate the history of Maoism and its impact on Chinese society with the National Committee on May 10, in New York City.
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 Jeremy Brown is an associate professor of history at Simon Fraser University in British Columbia, Canada. He is the author of City Versus Countryside in Mao’s China: Negotiating the Divide, and editor of Maoism at the Grassroots: Everyday Life in China’s Era of High Socialism (co-edited with Matthew D. Johnson) and Dilemmas of Victory: The Early Years of the People’s Republic of China (co-edited with Paul G. Pickowicz). His research on the social history of accidents in the People’s Republic of China has been supported by a Henry Luce Foundation/ACLS Program in China Studies Postdoctoral Fellowship and by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. He is also writing a new history of the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989.
Dr. Brown received his undergraduate degree from Lewis and Clark College and his doctorate from the University of California, San Diego. He also studied at the Harbin Institute of Technology and Tsinghua University.
 Matthew Johnson is an associate professor of East Asian history and chair of the East Asian Studies concentration at Grinnell College. As a Fulbright scholar he carried out an archive- and interview-based history of China’s Mao-era film industry, and he is the author and editor of numerous academic publications on Chinese media, culture, and society. He is also a founder of the PRC History Group (prchistory.org) and an editor of the H-PRC listserv and open-access journal The PRC History Review.
Dr. Johnson received his Ph.D. in history from the University of California, San Diego. He holds an undergraduate degree in social studies from Harvard University, has worked at Harvard’s Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, and taught Chinese history and politics at the University of Oxford and Renmin University. He is a National Committee member, and maintains a blog, corintconsulting.com, which tracks how research and writing about China are changing in the digital age.
Copies of Maoism at the Grassroots will be available for purchase. |
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