2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Contentious Politics Approaches to the Chinese Cultural Revolution
| Project/Area Number |
26360011
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Area studies
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| Research Institution | Kobe University |
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Principal Investigator |
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| Project Period (FY) |
2014-04-01 – 2017-03-31
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| Keywords | 中国 / 文化大革命 / 抗争政治 / 派閥抗争 / 集合的暴力 / 軍 / 相互行為 / 政治的アイデンティティ |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
The purpose of this research project was to analyze the Chinese Cultural Revolution from the perspective of the Contentious Politics approaches. The outcomes are summarized as follows: First, we have collected 130 copies of Red Guard newspapers published in Xi'an in 1966-1968, and entered them into a dataset. Second, analyzing the collected materials, we found that Red Guard factions in Xi'an were a product of interactions with civilian and military authorities, and among themselves, rather than a reflection of prior social cleavages. Third, we also found that the contentious interactions among the central authorities, the provincial military command, and mid- and low-level military authorities led to the collapse of the regional military structure, which in turn fueled the deadly factional warfare in the countryside. And finally, we found some evidence that the monopoly of power by a faction at the county-level led to the escalation of repressive political violence.
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| Free Research Field |
社会学、現代中国研究
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