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Grace Lee Boggs on Chinese Political Thought and the Next American Revolution.

  • Published In: Theory & Event, 2024, v. 27, n. 4. P. 532 1 of 3

  • Database: Academic Search Ultimate 2 of 3

  • Authored By: Lee, Fred; Luo, Lily 3 of 3

Abstract

This essay tracks how Grace Lee Boggs's lifelong engagements with Chinese political thought and US revolutionary praxis co-developed. We first show that Lee Boggs's concepts of roles and revolution drew on Confucian and Maoist philosophy; we next show that Lee Boggs later traced alternative, US-based genealogies of both concepts, just as she engaged more deeply with Asian American activism. Lee Boggs as a reader of Chinese thought tended towards cultural hybridity, transcontinental intimacies, and general intellectualism. We propose that these tendencies could be usefully developed in both Asian American political thought and political theory as a whole. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Additional Information

  • Source:Theory & Event. 2024/10, Vol. 27, Issue 4, p532
  • Document Type:Article
  • Subject Area:History
  • Publication Date:2024
  • ISSN:2572-6633
  • DOI:10.1353/tae.2024.a938807
  • Accession Number:180281968
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