Vicar of Bray: Performative Loyalty and Career Survival in Maoist China

• In Event: Historical Political Economy of China

Brief Overview

This study uses computational text analysis to show how vulnerable elites in Mao’s China performed exaggerated loyalty during the Cultural Revolution, showing how rhetoric became a strategy for survival and control in authoritarian politics.

Authors

• Yi-Nung Tsai, National Science and Technology Council, Taiwan

• Yen-Chieh Liao, University of Birmingham