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Red Legacies in China
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We would like to announce the publication of our new edited volume, Red Legacies in China: Cultural Afterlives of the Communist Revolution, edited by Jie Li and Enhua Zhang (Harvard Asia Center Publications, 2016). See: http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674737181
Jie Li <jieli at fas.harvard.edu> and Enhua Zhang
Description
What has contemporary China inherited from its revolutionary past? How do the realities and memories, aesthetics and practices of the Mao era still reverberate in the post-Mao cultural landscape? The essays in this volume propose “red legacies” as a new critical framework from which to examine the profusion of cultural productions and afterlives of the communist revolution in order to understand China’s continuities and transformations from socialism to
What has contemporary China inherited from its revolutionary past? How do the realities and memories, aesthetics and practices of the Mao era still reverberate in the post-Mao cultural landscape? The essays in this volume propose “red legacies” as a new critical framework from which to examine the profusion of cultural productions and afterlives of the communist revolution in order to understand China’s continuities and transformations from socialism to postsocialism. Organized into five parts—red foundations, red art, red classics, red bodies, and red shadows—the book’s interdisciplinary contributions focus on visual and performing arts, literature and film, language and thought, architecture, museums, and memorials. Mediating at once unfulfilled ideals and unmourned ghosts across generations, red cultural legacies suggest both inheritance and debt, and can be mobilized to support as well as to critique the status quo.
Table of Contents:
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 / Denise Y. Ho
2 Building Big, with No Regret: From Beijing’s “Ten Great Buildings” in the 1950s to China’s Megaprojects Today / Zhu Tao
Part II Red Art
3 Ambiguities of Address: Cultural Revolution Posters and Their Post-Mao Appeal / Harriet Evans
4 Socialist Visual Experience as Cultural Identity: On Wang Guangyi and Contemporary Art / Xiaobing Tang
Part III Red Classics
5 Performing the “Red Classics”: From The East Is Red to The Road to Revival / Xiaomei Chen
6 Red Legacies in Fiction / David Der-wei Wang
7 Post–Socialist Realism in Chinese Cinema / Jason McGrath
Part IV Red Bodies
8 Mao’s Two Bodies: On the Curious (Political) Art of Impersonating the Great Helmsman / Haiyan Lee
9 “Human Wave Tactics”: Zhang Yimou, Cinematic Ritual, and the Problems of Crowds / Andy Rodekohr
10 Time Out of Joint: Commemoration and Commodification of Socialism in Yan Lianke’s Lenin’s Kisses / Carlos Rojas
Part V Red Shadows
11 Museums and Memorials of the Mao Era: A Survey and Notes for Future Curators / Jie Li
12 Red Allure and the Crimson Blindfold / Geremie R. Barmé
by denton.2 at osu.edu on April 20, 2016
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