Internationalist aesthetics : China and early Soviet culture / Edward Tyerman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tyerman, Edward, author.

Series:

Studies of the Harriman Institute.

Studies of the Harriman Institute, Columbia University

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Communism and culture--Soviet Union--History.

Communism and culture.

Mass media and culture--Soviet Union--History.

Mass media and culture.

Communist aesthetics.

Soviet Union--Foreign relations--China.

Soviet Union.

China--Foreign relations--Soviet Union.

China.

China--Foreign public opinion, Soviet Union.

Soviet Union--Foreign public opinion, Chinese.

China--In mass media.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : 27 b&w figures

Place of Publication:

New York : Columbia University Press, [2022]

Language Note:

In English.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

Internationalist Aesthetics offers a groundbreaking account of the crucial role that China played in the early Soviet cultural imagination. Reading across genres and media from reportage and biography to ballet and documentary film, Edward Tyerman shows how Soviet culture sought an aesthetics that could foster a sense of internationalist community.

Contents:

Intro

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: China and Early Soviet Culture

1. Sight, Sound, and Similarity: Soviet Writers Travel to China

2. Translating China Onstage: Roar, China! and The Red Poppy

3. Through an Internationalist Lens: China in Early Soviet Cinema

4. Confessions and Collaborations: Authority, Agency and Factographic Internationalism in Den Shi-khua

Epilogue: International Literature, National Form, and Missed Connections

Notes

Bibliography and Sources

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-231-55298-X

OCLC:

1287137176