Code of reading practice in the Maoist era: focusing on the continuity of political culture

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  • HIGO, Haruka
    日本学術振興会特別研究員・教育文化学コース博士後期課程1回生

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  • 毛沢東時代の読書規範 --政治文化の連続性に着目して--
  • モウタクトウ ジダイ ノ ドクショ キハン : セイジ ブンカ ノ レンゾクセイ ニ チャクモク シテ

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This paper discusses the code of reading practice in Maoist China (1949 – 1976) from the perspective of the continuity of political culture, based on discourse analysis of People's Daily. It is often regarded that reading was severely restricted during the Cultural Revolution, but people were actually encouraged to read at this time. Therefore, the question to be addressed is the official code of how to read. The analysis yielded the following three findings. First, the regime succeeded in the instrumental view of reading in the 1930s, which asked readers only to read politically useful books. Second, the claim that "reading has no use, " which was originally a secondary effect of the above-mentioned idea, was assigned to political enemies. Third, although traditional morals were denied ideologically, they were utilized to encourage reading practice. This code was consistent before, during, and even after the Cultural Revolution. By simply denigrating the preceding period as the dark age of reading, a propaganda campaign to encourage reading based on the instrumental view was implemented in the 1980s.

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