Writing to the rhythm of labor : cultural politics of the Chinese revolution, 1942-1976 /

"This book explores what it meant to write during the historical course of the Chinese Revolution, and how culture was understood to have a key role in the construction of a socialist society. It examines how writers and artists were, from the 1940s onwards, regularly dispatched to the countrys...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kindler, Benjamin (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Columbia University Press, [2025]
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Table of Contents:
  • Learning to write, learning to labor: The Yan'an way and the birth of the culture worker
  • Lazy peasants, productive proletarians: The developmental logic of cultural labor and uneven development
  • Time for communism: Mass writing, revolutionary form, and "bourgeois right"
  • Reproducing revolution: Cultural reconstruction and the aesthetics of communist heroism
  • In and out of Petersburg: Soul and writing under late Maoism
  • Thermidor (By way of conclusion).