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

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Chen, Xiaomei, 1954- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Columbia University Press, [2016]
Subjects:
China > History > 1949- > Historiography.
Theater > Political aspects > China > History > 20th century.
Heads of state > China > Biography.
Biography > Political aspects.
China > Politics and government > 1949- > Biography.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : propaganda performance, history, and landscape
  • The place of Chen Duxiu : political theater, dramatic history, and the question of representation
  • The return of Mao Zedong : a people's hero and a "new" legacy in postsocialist performance
  • The stage of Deng Xiaoping : the "incorrigible capitalist roader"
  • The myth of the "red classics" : three revolutionary music-and-dance epics and their peaceful restorations
  • Epilogue : Where are the "founding mothers"?.