War and Popular Culture : Resistance in Modern China, 1937–1945 / Chang-Tai Hung.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Hung, Chang-Tai, Author.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (450 p.)

Edition:

Reprint 2020

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2020]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

This is the first comprehensive study of popular culture in twentieth-century China, and of its political impact during the Sino-Japanese War of 1937-1945 (known in China as "The War of Resistance against Japan"). Chang-tai Hung shows in compelling detail how Chinese resisters used a variety of popular cultural forms-especially dramas, cartoons, and newspapers-to reach out to the rural audience and galvanize support for the war cause. While the Nationalists used popular culture as a patriotic tool, the Communists refashioned it into a socialist propaganda instrument, creating lively symbols of peasant heroes and joyful images of village life under their rule. In the end, Hung argues, the Communists' use of popular culture contributed to their victory in revolution. This is the first comprehensive study of popular culture in twentieth-century China, and of its political impact during the Sino-Japanese War of 1937-1945 (known in China as "The War of Resistance against Japan"). Chang-tai Hung shows in compelling detail

Contents:

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Illustrations
• Abbreviations
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• 1. The Rise of Modern Popular Culture
• 2. Spoken Dramas
• 3. Cartoons
• 4. Newspapers
• 5. New Wine in Old Bottles
• 6. Popular Culture in the Communist Areas
• 7. A New Political Culture
• Appendix: Persons Interviewed
• Notes
• Glossary
• Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 01. Okt 2020)

ISBN:

• 9780520354869
• 0520354869

OCLC:

1198930570