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No portion of this publication may be reproduced, copied or transmitted save with written permission or in accordance with the provisions of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, or under the terms of any licence permitting limited copying issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency, Saff ron House, 6–10 Kirby Street, London EC1N 8TS. Any person who does any unauthorized act in relation to this publication may be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damages. Th e author has asserted his right to be identifi ed as the author of this work in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. First published 2013 by PALGRAVE MACMILLAN Palgrave Macmillan in the UK is an imprint of Macmillan Publishers Limited, registered in England, company number 785998, of Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS. Palgrave Macmillan in the US is a division of St Martin’s Press LLC, 175 Fift h Avenue, New York, NY 10010. Palgrave Macmillan is the global academic imprint of the above companies and has companies and representatives throughout the world. Palgrave® and Macmillan® are registered trademarks in the United States, the United Kingdom, Europe and other countries. ISBN: 978-1-137-29383-1 PDF ISBN: 978-1-349-45135-7 A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. A catalog record for this book is available from the Library of Congress. www.palgrave.com/pivot doi: ./9781137293831 Contents Acknowledgements vi List of Abbreviations viii Note on Transcription ix Introduction Th e Sublimation of Skill Self-Cultivation: Confucian Roots Red or Expert? Abolishing the Self as Private Property Conclusion Index DOI: 10.1057/9781137293831 v Acknowledgements Research leading to this book was generously funded by the Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland as well as by the Russell Trust, and was sponsored by a PhD scholarship of the Department of Social Anthropology of the University of St Andrews. An earlier version of this work was presented as a paper at the Annual Conference of the British Association for Chinese Studies (BACS), in September 2010 at Bristol, and consequently pub- lished in the fi rst issue of the journal of the Association. (Lynteris, C. (2011) ‘In Memory of Norman Bethune’: Two Resurrections of the ‘Spirit of Selfl essness’ in Maoist China, Journal of the British Association for Chinese Studies, Vol. 1 (December 2011) 21–49.) I would like to thank all the participants of the panel for the valuable discussion and comments. Th is book was completed in the town of Ascona, Switzerland, at the Centro Incontri Umani, under its gen- erous Residential Fellowship in the spring and summer of 2011. I am deeply grateful to the Foundation and to Angela Hobart in particular for this piece of earthly paradise. I would also like to thank Laura Simona and Reto Mordasini for their warm day-to-day assistance at the Centro, and my co-fellows David Napier, Tania Zivkovich and Smadar Lavie, as well as co-residents Anna Volkmann, Tom Kennedy, Caroline Ifeka, little Sol and ‘Wagner’ for six months of inspiring discussions and conviviality around Lago Maggiore. I would also like to thank Roy Dilley for his inde- fatigable support in following unconventional paths in anthropology, Nikolai Ssorin-Chaikov for broadening my vi DOI: 10.1057/9781137293831 Acknowledgements vii perspective on state-socialism, Igal Halfi n for his bold critique on earlier forms of this work and Caroline Humphrey for reading earlier forms of the manuscript and providing vital advice and encouragement. Th is book is dedicated to my companion, Stavroula K. Koutroumpi, with- out whom writing would be a place of exile. DOI: 10.1057/9781137293831 List of Abbreviations CCP Chinese Communist Party CMA Chinese Medical Association CMJ Chinese Medical Journal CPSU Communist Party of the Soviet Union KDPR Korean Democratic People’s Republic (North Korea) KUTV Communist University of the Toilers of the East (in Moscow) PLA People’s Liberation Army PRC People’s Republic of China TASS Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union (state-monopoly information agency) TCM Traditional Chinese Medicine viii DOI: 10.1057/9781137293831 Note on Transcription Transcription of Chinese words and names in the non- quoted text of this thesis follows the Pinyin system. However, especially as regards proper names, the tran- scription follows the format of the original source and its offi cial translation, usually following the Wade–Giles system. Th us, for example, Fu Lianzhang appears as Fu Lian-Cheng. DDOOII:: 1100..11005577//9781137293831 ix
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