War and popular culture : resistance in modern China, 1937-1945 /
This is the first comprehensive study of popular culture in twentieth-century China, and of its political impact during the Sino-Japanese War of 1937-1945 (known in China as ""The War of Resistance against Japan""). Chang-tai Hung shows in compelling detail how Chinese resisters...
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University of California Press,
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Table of Contents:
- [Ch]. 1. The rise of modern popular culture
- Treaty ports and Shanghai
- A new drama in urban China
- The emergence of Chinese cartoons
- The new press and new journalists
- [ch]. 2. Spoken dramas
- Popularization
- The street play Lay down your whip
- Female symbols of resistance : patriotic courtesans and women warriors
- Historical plays
- Traditional dramas
- [ch]. 3. Cartoons
- The National Salvation Cartoon Propaganda Corps
- Images of war
- A new form of art
- War and peace in the cartoons of Feng Zikai
- [ch]. 4. Newspapers
- Wartime dispatches
- Fan Changjiang and the rhetoric of war
- The war correspondent
- The journalist as critic
- Dissemination and decentralization
- Local newspapers
- [ch]. 5. New wine in old bottles
- The use of popular literature
- Lao She and Lao Xiang
- Drum singing and other popular culture forms
- Popular reading materials
- [ch]. 6. Popular culture in the communist areas
- The village drama movement
- Art for politics' sake
- Newspapers and a new language
- Creating a new culture
- The border region culture
- [ch]. 7. A new political culture
- Intellectuals and participation
- The dissemination of urban popular culture forms
- Village culture.