Staging Chinese Revolution : theater, film, and the afterlives of propaganda

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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 int...

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Main Author: Chen, Xiaomei, 1954- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Columbia University Press, [2017]
Subjects:
Since 1900
Theater > Political aspects > China > History > 20th century.
Heads of state > China > Biography.
Biography > Political aspects.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Propaganda.
Heads of state
Historiography
Politics and government
Theater > Political aspects
Politisches Theater
Propaganda
Massenmedien
China > History > 1949- > Historiography.
China > Politics and government > 1949- > Biography.
Chine > Histoire > 1949- > Historiographie.
Chine > Politique et gouvernement > 1949- > Biographies.
China
Biographies
History
Biographies.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Propaganda performance, history, and landscape
  • The place of Chen Duxiu: political theater, dramatic history, and the question of representation
  • Returning a people's hero: a "new" legacy in the plays of Mao
  • Staging Deng Xiaoping: the "incorrigible capitalist roader"
  • Performing the "red classics": three revolutionary music-and-dance epics and their peaceful restorations
  • Epilogue: Where are the "founding mothers"?

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