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A Soviet Hero, Pavel Korchagin, Comes To China

A Soviet Hero, Pavel Korchagin, Comes To China MIIN-LING YU (Taipei, Taiwan) A SOVIET HERO, PAVEL KORCHAGIN, COMES TO CHINA* Countless Chinese wrote the above quotation in their diaries, hung it over their beds, glued it on the wall, memorized it by heart, and treated it as a life motto to encourage themselves. The novel, How the Steel Was Tempered (Kak zakalialas stal), by Nikolai Alekseevich Ostrovskii (1904-1936), accompanied several gen- erations of Chinese through their youth and deeply influenced their views of the world. The purpose of this article is to use the character, Pavel Korchagin,2 hero of Ostrovskii's Socialist Realist novel, as a case study to explore the role that this character played in Chinese society and political culture. How did the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) utilize the character as an ideal-typed hero and commis- sion him for a political mission aimed at remolding people? During the process, how did the contents of what was called "Pavel's spirit" change with the political environments? This will be a concrete and detailed study to explore the extent of the Soviet influence over China. It is well known that the CCP policies leaned toward the Soviet Union since the founding of the People's Republic of China (PRC). http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Russian History Brill

A Soviet Hero, Pavel Korchagin, Comes To China

Yu, Mn-Ling
Russian History , Volume 29 (2-4): 329 – Jan 1, 2002
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© 2002 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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0094-288X
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1876-3316
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10.1163/187633102X00063
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MIIN-LING YU (Taipei, Taiwan) A SOVIET HERO, PAVEL KORCHAGIN, COMES TO CHINA* Countless Chinese wrote the above quotation in their diaries, hung it over their beds, glued it on the wall, memorized it by heart, and treated it as a life motto to encourage themselves. The novel, How the Steel Was Tempered (Kak zakalialas stal), by Nikolai Alekseevich Ostrovskii (1904-1936), accompanied several gen- erations of Chinese through their youth and deeply influenced their views of the world. The purpose of this article is to use the character, Pavel Korchagin,2 hero of Ostrovskii's Socialist Realist novel, as a case study to explore the role that this character played in Chinese society and political culture. How did the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) utilize the character as an ideal-typed hero and commis- sion him for a political mission aimed at remolding people? During the process, how did the contents of what was called "Pavel's spirit" change with the political environments? This will be a concrete and detailed study to explore the extent of the Soviet influence over China. It is well known that the CCP policies leaned toward the Soviet Union since the founding of the People's Republic of China (PRC).

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Russian History – Brill

Published: Jan 1, 2002

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