Format:
1 Online-Ressource (378 p)
ISBN:
9780231166386
Content:
Staging Chinese Revolution surveys fifty years of theatrical propaganda performances in China, revealing a dynamic, commercial capacity in works often dismissed as artifacts of censorship. Spanning the 1960s through the 2010s, Xiaomei Chen reads films, plays, operas, and television shows from an interdisciplinary and comparative perspective, demonstrating how, in a socialist state with capitalist characteristics," propaganda performance turns biographies, memoirs, and war stories into mainstream ideological commodities, legitimizing the state and its right to rule. Analyzing propaganda perfor
Content:
Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Propaganda Performance -- 1. The Place of Chen Duxiu: Political Theater, Dramatic History, and the Question of Representation -- 2. The Return of Mao Zedong: A People's Hero and a "New" Legacy in Postsocialist Performance -- 3. The Stage of Deng Xiaoping: The "Incorrigible Capitalist Roader" -- 4. The Myth of the "Red Classics": Three Revolutionary Music-and-Dance Epics and Their Peaceful Restorations -- Epilogue: Where Are the "Founding Mothers"? -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780231541619
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780231166386
Additional Edition:
Print version Chen, Xiaomei Staging Chinese Revolution : Theater, Film, and the Afterlives of Propaganda La Vergne : Columbia University Press,c2016 ISBN 9780231166386
Language:
English
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