The art of cloning : creative production during China's Cultural Revolution /

"Cultural production under Mao, and how artists and thinkers found autonomy in a culture of conformity. In the 1950s, a French journalist joked that the Chinese were 'blue ants under the red flag,' dressing identically and even marching in an identical fashion. When the Cultural Revol...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Pang, Laikwan (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London ; Brooklyn, NY : Verso, 2017.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • I: Art, Politics, and Economics
  • Maoist Aesthetics
  • Production and Circulation of Literature under the Revolutionary Cultural Economy
  • II: A Culture of Models and Copies
  • Art and the Culture of Models and Copies
  • Barefoot Doctors and Femininity
  • Opera and Transplantation between Cultures
  • Ballet across Genres and Forms
  • Mao as Doxa
  • Intellectuals as Ghosts
  • Chinese Glossary.