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Peasants' Fatalistic Thinking in Chinese Communism: an Analysis of a Rural Family's Oral History.

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Title: Peasants' Fatalistic Thinking in Chinese Communism: an Analysis of a Rural Family's Oral History.
Authors: Jiang, Chengyang (AUTHOR)
Source: Integrative Psychological & Behavioral Science. Jun2022, Vol. 56 Issue 2, p355-367. 13p.
Subjects: Rural families, Oral history, Chinese Communist Party, Social conflict, Peasants, Communism
Geographic Terms: China
Abstract: In this paper, I examine a Chinese family's oral history, which revolves around their tumultuous life transformations under the impact of China's communist movement between 1940 and 1977. Using interviews with four siblings who have distinctive personalities and life narratives, I focus on how they apply fatalistic thinking—a phenomenon popular among ordinary Chinese but is rarely analyzed by scholars—to make sense of the vicissitudes of the fates of the family members. I position the Chinese family's oral history in macro and micro contexts. In the macro context, since the land reform in 1940s, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) had attempted to replace peasants' fatalistic thinking with class analysis to explain the roots of hardships in their lives. As the communist movement and class struggle receded, fatalistic thinking—which has never been eradicated—revived. In the micro context, fatalistic thinking is expressed through distinctive memories and narratives, which are linked to personalities and identities. I argue that fatalistic thinking is a mean of self-construction that people consciously or unconsciously resort to when facing absurdity. By using fatalistic thinking, people develop narratives about the self and create a sense of mental balance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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