here - CDH - EPFL

LAUSANNE SUMMER SCHOOL
CACS EPFL
PROGRAMME
Monday 8 July
Politics and Ideology
09:00 > 09:15 Welcome and introduction to the programme
Florence Graezer Bideau
09:15 > 09:30 Introduction to module I “Politics and Policies”
Hans Peter Hertig
09:30 >12:30 Politics and ideology: the role of Mao in the making of modern China
Rebecca Karl
This session will explore what “Maoism in practice” was about, from the perspective
of what Chinese socialism was trying to achieve in terms of the theoretical and
practical bases established for an alternative version of modernization from the
capitalist, Euro-American type or the Soviet socialist type. We will read two chapters
of my book on Mao and supplement those with some primary documents from the
Cultural Revolution that took the theories and practices of Maoism to their radical
extremes. Our attempt will be to understand Chinese socialism in its own terms,
rather than to condemn it from the retrospective vantages of its supposed failures.
12:30 >14:00 Lunch with students
14:00 >16:30 Politics and ideology (continued)
Rebecca Karl
16:30 >17:00 Introduction to student presentations
F. Graezer Bideau, C. Lutringer and I. Vogel Chevroulet
Compulsory reading
Karl, R. (2010). “Stabilizing Society and the Transition to Socialism 1949–1957” and “Great Leap and
Restoration 1958–1965”. In Mao Zedong in the Twentieth-Century World, chapters 6 and 7, Durham and
London: Duke University Press, pp. 73-98 and 99-116.
4