MCLC: Avant-Garde and the Popular in Modern China

[Denton, Kirk]

MCLC LIST
From: Liang Luo <liang.luo at uky.edu>
Subject: Avant-Garde and the Popular in Modern China
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Dear List Members,
 

I am happy to announce the publication of my book The Avant-Garde and the
Popular in Modern China by the University of Michigan Press.

Liang

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Luo, Liang. The Avant-Garde and the Popular in Modern China: Tian Han and
the Intersection of Performance and Politics. Ann Arbor, MI: University of
Michigan Press, July 2014. xviii, 367 pages.
ISBN 978-0-472-07217-0 (cloth)
ISBN 978-0-472-05217-2 (paper)
ISBN 978-0-472-12034-5 (e-book)
 

Contents
 
Selected List of Tian Han's Works xiii
 

Prologue 1
 

Introduction: The Avant-Garde and the Popular 7
Avant-garde, Popular, Propaganda 8
A Chinese Avant-Gardist 15
"Creating the New Woman" and "Going to the People" 17
Situating the Book 18
Outline of Chapters 19
 

Chapter One: The Lights of Tokyo 23
Tian Han in Tokyo 24
Performing "Spiritual Light" 27
Tokyo at the Post-World War I Moment 35
The Christian Context 39
Avant-Garde Encounters through Popular Media 47
Art and Social Movements: Cross-Illuminations 54
Conclusion 59
 

Chapter Two: The Night and Fire of Shanghai 60
Shanghai Night: Connecting Japan and China 63
Back to Japan: Between the Aesthetic and the Proletarian 71
Night and Fire in Independent Publishing 76
Independent Filmmaking as a Silver Dream 83
The Politics of Performing Salome and Carmen 92
Conclusion 101
 

Chapter Three: Lovers and Heroes in the Wartime Hinterland 103
The Avant-Garde and the People 107
The Use of Tradition and Intermedia Experiments 114
From Lovers to Volunteers 118
How to Conduct "Guerrilla Drama Warfare"? 122
"A New Legend of Lovers and Heroes" and Wartime Opera 126
"Rhapsody on the Sounds of Autumn" and Wartime Spoken Drama 131
"Memories of the South" or "The Lament of the South" 139
Conclusion 142
 

Chapter Four: The International Avant-Garde and the Chinese National
Anthem 145
One Song, Many Renditions 147
The International Avant-Garde 149
One Country, Two "National Anthems" 151
Making "March of the Volunteers" 157
Marketing "March of the Volunteers" 160
Performing "March of the Volunteers" 163
Mass Singing "March of the Volunteers" 170
Conclusion 173
 

Chapter Five: A White Snake in Beijing: Re-Creating Socialist Opera 177
Obsession with Chinese Opera 179
Metamorphosis of the White Snake 193
The Peking Opera "White Snake" 197
A Profound Propaganda: The International Avant-Garde in the 1950s 207
 
Epilogue: Endings, Happy and Otherwise 213
Tian Han and Guan Hanqing 213
Ai Wei Wei and the Transformation of the Chinese Avant-Garde 222
 

Notes 227
 
Glossary 297
 
Bibliography 311
 
Index 353
 

For more information, please visit:

 
http://www.press.umich.edu/6144123