Popular Chinese Literature and Performing Arts in the People's Republic of China, 1949-1979
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1984. Hardcover. Tan cloth boards with red spine lettering; burgundy dj with bw illustration, mylar cover; xvi, 341 pp. VG-/VG- (Ex-library with stamps and labels on spine, inside front and rear covers, ffep and block. Fading to dj along spine. Light shelfwear to boards. Pages are otherwise clean.). Item #186153
ISBN: 9780520048522
"The essays in this volume constitute an exceptionally broad and inclusive account of Chinese literature and performing arts since 1949."- DJ. Based on papers presented at a workshop held at Harvard University, June 1979. Contents: 1. Folk art as propaganda : the Ynagge movement in Yan'an / David Holm -- 2. Shanghai's "Orphan Island" and the development of modern drama / Edward Gunn -- 3. Critical grounds : the transformation of the May Fourth era / T.D. Huters -- 4. The genie and the lamp : revolutionary Xiangsheng / Perry Link -- 5. Geming Gequ : songs for the education of the masses / Isabel K.F. Wong -- 6. Model opera as model : from Shajiabang to Sagabong / Bell Yung -- 7. From romantic love to class struggle : reflections on the film Liu Sanjie / Wai-fong Loh -- 8. The film industry in the 1970s / Paul Clark -- 9. Making the past serve the present in fiction and drama : from Yan'an forum to the cultural revolution / Robert E. Hegel -- 10. A notable sermon : the subtext of Hao Ran's fiction / Michael Egan -- 11. Contemporary Chinese poetry and its search for an ideal form / Kai-yu Hsu -- 12. Writers and performers, their works, and their audiences in the first three decades / Bonnie S. McDougall.
OCLC: 8975323
Price: $36.00