ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book examines the nature of Chongqing's Red culture campaign as well as the ordinary people's experiences during the execution of the campaign. It examines whether Chongqing's Red culture campaign was a genuine Maoist mass campaign and the interactive relationship between the Chinese Communist Party's (CCP's) political power and the everyday life of the ordinary people. The book draws on Baudrillard's concept of simulation and argues that Chongqing's Red culture campaign was not a real Maoist mass campaign but demonstrated critical features of simulation. It demonstrates that the social implications of the case went beyond the power struggles and were rooted within a more obscure and ordinary layer of social life. Creativity was possible when the official programme and the practices of the participants engaged in a form of exchange and actively appropriated each other into their respective courses of development.
