Sources of authority [Elektronische Ressource] : quotational practice in Chinese communist propaganda / vorgelegt von Jennifer May

Sources of Authority Quotational Practice in Chinese Communist Propaganda Inaugural-Dissertation zur Erlangung der Doktorwürde an der Philosophischen Fakultät der Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg Institut für Sinologie Vorgelegt von Jennifer May Dezember 2008 Erstgutachterin: Prof. Dr. Barbara Mittler Zweitgutachter: Prof. Dr. Rudolf Wagner Table of Contents Table of Contents Acknowledgements III List of Figures V Notes VII Introduction: Quoting Authority 1 1. Quoting in China: Theoretical and Historical Consideration 9 2. Lifecycles of Quotations 57 2.1 The Lifecycle of a Quotation Chameleon 59 2.2 “Smash the Confucian shop” or the Lifecycle of a Half-forgotten Quotation 96 2.3 “The Working Class Has to Lead Everything” or the Lifecycle of a Quotation Star 125 3. A Source of Authority 145 4. (De-)Contextualising Quotations 229 Conclusion 295 Appendix 1: Categorization of Journals 301 Appendix 2: “Reform Our Study” divided into sentences 303 Literature 307 I Acknowledgements Acknowledgements My interest in the subject of quotation in the Chinese culture was awoken by Michael Schimmelpfennig who taught a seminar on quotation in classical Chinese literature at the Institute of Chinese Studies back in 2001. Since then, the idea of introducing this subject into modern Chinese studies and especially media studies never left my imagination.