Red Legacies in China Cultural Afterlives of the Communist Revolution.

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Bibliographic Details
Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Li, Jie
Other Authors: Zhang, Enhua
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Boston : BRILL, 2016.
Series:Harvard Contemporary China Ser.
Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Red Legacies in China: Cultural Afterlives of the Communist Revolution
  • Contents
  • List of Plates and Figures
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Discerning Red Legacies in China / Jie Li
  • PART I RED FOUNDATIONS
  • 1 Making a Revolutionary Monument: The Site of the First National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party
  • 2 Building Big, with No Regret: From Beijing's "Ten Great Buildings" in the 1950s to China's Megaprojects Today
  • PART II RED ART
  • 3 Ambiguities of Address: Cultural Revolution Posters and Their Post-Mao Appeal.
  • 4 Socialist Visual Experience as Cultural Identity: On Wang Guangyi and Contemporary Art
  • PART III RED CLASSICS
  • 5 Performing the "Red Classics": From The East Is Red to Th e Road to Revival
  • 6 Red Legacies in Fiction
  • 7 Post-Socialist Realism in Chinese Cinema
  • PART IV RED BODIES
  • 8 Mao's Two Bodies: On the Curious (Political) Art of Impersonating the Great Helmsman
  • 9 "Human Wave Tactics": Zhang Yimou, Cinematic Ritual, and the Problems of Crowds
  • 10 Time Out of Joint: Commemoration and Commodifi cation of Socialism in Yan Lianke's Lenin's Kisses
  • PART V RED SHADOWS.
  • 11 Museums and Memorials of the Mao Era: A Survey and Notes for Future Curators
  • 12 Red Allure and the Crimson Blindfold
  • Contributors
  • Index
  • Harvard Contemporary China Series.