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END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20340312T030000 RDATE:20341105T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:America/New_York EDT END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20350311T030000 RDATE:20351104T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:America/New_York EDT END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20360309T030000 RDATE:20361102T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:America/New_York EDT END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20370308T030000 RDATE:20371101T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:America/New_York EDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:587b6d76828894c8891d6224e9722092 CATEGORIES:China Lunch Hour CREATED:20191218T230221 SUMMARY:Cultural Revolution and Cultural History: High Maoism and Uyghur Perceptions of the Past (Joshua Freeman, Princeton University) LOCATION:64 College Ave.\, 1st floor conference room DESCRIPTION:\nAbstract\nIn the 1950s, a cohort of young Uyghur intellectuals formed an alliance with the Maoist party-state and emerged as the new cultural elite of Xinjiang, China’s majority-Muslim northwest region. Adept at explaining socialist policy in a Uyghur cultural context, these poets, editors, and tr anslators endeavored to replace existing traditions with a new culture suit ed to the socialist revolution. While the party-state placed increasing pre ssure on the culture and religion of the “old society,” this group of socia list Uyghur intellectuals promoted new cultural forms, ranging from simplif ied poetic meters to a written language supposedly closer to popular speech . Most of these intellectuals were denounced during the Cultural Revolution of 1966-76, which also led throughout China to the burning of most written works, whether recent or ancient. By the early 1980s, when reformist polic ies took hold in Xinjiang and Uyghur-language books and journals began once more to be printed in large quantities, the unprecedented destruction of t he preceding years had lent a sense of chronological depth and classic stat us to the cultural products and norms introduced in the 1950s. Thus it was that as Mao-era intellectuals were rehabilitated and their works reprinted, they assumed a leading role in 1980s Uyghur public culture as guardians of timeless Uyghur tradition—a tradition they themselves had presented severa l decades before as a revolutionary challenge to age-old Uyghur culture.\nB io\nJoshua Freeman is a Link-Cotsen Postdoctoral Fellow at the Princeton So ciety of Fellows in the Liberal Arts and a lecturer in Princeton’s Departme nt of East Asian Studies. He received his Ph.D. at Harvard University in Ma y 2019. He is currently revising his dissertation into a book manuscript, P rint Communism: Uyghur National Culture in Twentieth-Century China. This st udy connects China to cultural trends in the socialist and Islamic worlds, and demonstrates that socialist policies, implemented in China’s northwest borderlands beginning in the 1930s, enabled the small Sino-Soviet frontier community of Ili to transform its local culture into the new Uyghur nationa l culture.\nA\n X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
Abstract
In the 1950s, a cohort of young Uyghur intellectuals formed an alliance with the Maoist party-state and em erged as the new cultural elite of Xinjiang, China’s majority-Muslim northw est region. Adept at explaining socialist policy in a Uyghur cultural conte xt, these poets, editors, and translators endeavored to replace existing tr aditions with a new culture suited to the socialist revolution. While the p arty-state placed increasing pressure on the culture and religion of the “o ld society,” this group of socialist Uyghur intellectuals promoted new cult ural forms, ranging from simplified poetic meters to a written language sup posedly closer to popular speech. Most of these intellectuals were denounce d during the Cultural Revolution of 1966-76, which also led throughout Chin a to the burning of most written works, whether recent or ancient. By the e arly 1980s, when reformist policies took hold in Xinjiang and Uyghur-langua ge books and journals began once more to be printed in large quantities, th e unprecedented destruction of the preceding years had lent a sense of chro nological depth and classic status to the cultural products and norms intro duced in the 1950s. Thus it was that as Mao-era intellectuals were rehabili tated and their works reprinted, they assumed a leading role in 1980s Uyghu r public culture as guardians of timeless Uyghur tradition—a tradition they themselves had presented several decades before as a revolutionary challen ge to age-old Uyghur culture.
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Joshua Freem an is a Link-Cotsen Postdoctoral Fellow at the Princeton Society of Fe llows in the Liberal Arts and a lecturer in Princeton’s Department of East Asian Studies. He received his Ph.D. at Harvard University in May 2019 . He is currently revising his dissertation into a book manuscript, Pri nt Communism: Uyghur National Culture in Twentieth-Century China.  ;This study connects China to cultural trends in the socialist and Islamic worlds, and demonstrates that socialist policies, implemented in China ’s northwest borderlands beginning in the 1930s, enabled the small Sin o-Soviet frontier community of Ili to transform its local culture into the new Uyghur national culture.
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