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BORDERLAND MEMORIES F R O Searching for Historical Identity M M in Post-Mao China MARTIN T. FROMM B O R D E R L A N D M E M O R I E S Borderland Memories In the 1980s, as China transitioned to the post-Mao era, a state- sponsoredoralhistoryprojectledtothepublicationoflocal,regional, and national histories. They took the form of written and transcribed personal testimonies of events that preceded the turmoil of both the Cultural Revolution and, in many cases, the Communist victory in 1949. Known as wenshi ziliao, these publications represent an intense processofhistoricalmemoryproductionthathasreceivedlittlescholarly attention. Hitherto unexamined archival materials and oral histories reveal unresolved tensions in post–Cultural Revolution reconciliation and mobilization, informing negotiations between local elites and the state, and between Party and non-Party organizations. Taking the northeast Russia–Manchuria borderlands as a case study, Martin T.Frommexaminesthecreationofpost-Maoidentities,politicalmobi- lization,andknowledgeproductioninChina. MartinT.FrommisanassistantprofessoratWorcesterStateUniversity. HeistheeditoroftheacademicjournalCurrentsinTeachingandLearning. CambridgeStudiesintheHistoryofthePeople’sRepublicofChina SeriesEditors JeremyBrown,JacobEyferth,DanielLeese,MichaelSchoenhals CambridgeStudiesintheHistoryofthePeople’sRepublicofChinaisamajor seriesofambitiousworksinthesocial,political,andculturalhistoryofsocialist China.Aidedbyawealthofnewsources,recentresearchpayscloseattentionto regional differences, to perspectives from the social and geographical margins, andtotheunintendedconsequencesofCommunistPartyrule.Booksintheseries contributetothishistoricalreevaluationbypresentingthemoststimulatingand rigorously researched works in thefield to a broad audience.The series invites submissions from a variety of disciplines and approaches, based on written, material, or oral sources. Particularly welcome are those works that bridge the 1949 and 1978 divides, and those that seek to understand China in an internationalorglobalcontext. StudiesoftheWeatherheadEastAsianInstitute,ColumbiaUniversity TheStudiesoftheWeatherheadEastAsianInstituteofColumbiaUniversitywere inaugurated in 1962 to bring to a wider public the results of significant new researchonmodernandcontemporaryEastAsia. Alistoftitlesinthisseriescanbefoundatthebackofthebook. Borderland Memories Searching for Historical Identity in Post-Mao China Martin T. Fromm WorcesterStateUniversity UniversityPrintingHouse,CambridgeCB28BS,UnitedKingdom OneLibertyPlaza,20thFloor,NewYork,NY10006,USA 477WilliamstownRoad,PortMelbourne,VIC3207,Australia 314–321,3rdFloor,Plot3,SplendorForum,JasolaDistrictCentre, NewDelhi–110025,India 79AnsonRoad,#06–04/06,Singapore079906 CambridgeUniversityPressispartoftheUniversityofCambridge. ItfurtherstheUniversity’smissionbydisseminatingknowledgeinthepursuitof education,learning,andresearchatthehighestinternationallevelsofexcellence. www.cambridge.org Informationonthistitle:www.cambridge.org/9781108475921 DOI:10.1017/9781108571784 ©MartinT.Fromm2019 Thispublicationisincopyright.Subjecttostatutoryexception andtotheprovisionsofrelevantcollectivelicensingagreements, noreproductionofanypartmaytakeplacewithoutthewritten permissionofCambridgeUniversityPress. Firstpublished2019 Printed andboundinGreatBritainbyClaysLtd,ElcografS.p.A. AcataloguerecordforthispublicationisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary. LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData Names:Fromm,MartinT.,1974–author. Title:Borderlandmemories:searchingforhistoricalidentityinpost-Mao China/MartinT.Fromm. Description: Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, [2019] | Series:CambridgestudiesinthehistoryofthePeople’sRepublicofChina|Includes bibliographicalreferencesandindex. Identifiers:LCCN2018056574|ISBN9781108475921(alk.paper) Subjects:LCSH:China–History–1976–2002–Historiography.| China – History – 1976–2002 – Sources. | China – History – 1949–1976 – Historiography.|China–History–1949–1976–Sources.|Borderlands–China– Historiography.|Borderlands–SovietUnion–Historiography.|Nationalismand historiography–China.|Nationalismandcollectivememory–China. Classification:LCCDS779.19.F762019|DDC951.05/8072–dc23 LCrecordavailableathttps://lccn.loc.gov/2018056574 ISBN978-1-108-47592-1Hardback CambridgeUniversityPresshasnoresponsibilityforthepersistenceoraccuracyof URLsforexternalorthird-partyinternetwebsitesreferredtointhispublication anddoesnotguaranteethatanycontentonsuchwebsitesis,orwillremain, accurateorappropriate. This book is dedicated to my lovely wife, Minjin Fromm. I can’t wait to see what’s on the next page of our blessed life together.
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