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Timothy Cheek. Propaganda and Culture in Mao's China: Deng Tuo and the Intelligentsia. (Studies on Contemporary China.) New York: Clarendon Press Oxford University. 1997. Pp. ix, 390. $85.00.

This multilayered biography of Deng Tuo, a leading propagandist for the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) from the 1930s until his death by suicide in 1966, offers a wealth of new insight into the complicated and ultimately tragic world of intellectual service in Mao Zedong's China. Reflective of a growing interest in the role of "establishment intellectuals" in the Chinese Communist movement, the book takes issue with studies that posit an essential divergence of interests between intellectuals and the party-state. Timothy Cheek asks three questions: why was Maoism attractive to some intellectuals? What was service to Maoism like when it worked? What went wrong in that service to bring its demise? By Maoism, Cheek means "the whole system under the CCP, its ideology and organization" (p. 7). To serve this system as Deng Tuo did, as a media propagandist, was to participate in a set of institutional structures at the heart of the Chinese party-state. For Deng, propaganda was not a pejorative term but an enlightened effort to "transform the masses through education" (jiaohua) (p. 309). . . .

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