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Staging Chinese Revolution : Theater, Film, and the Afterlives of Propaganda.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Columbia University Press, 2016Copyright date: ©2017Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (378 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780231541619
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Staging Chinese RevolutionDDC classification:
  • 951.05
LOC classification:
  • DS777.549.C446 2017
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- 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.
Summary: 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.
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Intro -- 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.

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.

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