Red legacies in China : cultural afterlives of the communist revolution / edited by Jie Li and Enhua Zhang.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Li, Jie, 1979- editor.

Zhang, Enhua, 1974- editor.

Series:

Harvard contemporary China series ; 18.

Harvard Contemporary China Series ; 18

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Politics and culture--China.

Politics and culture.

Decommunization--China.

Decommunization.

Art--Political aspects--China.

Art.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London : Harvard University Asia Center, [2016]

Summary:

What has contemporary China inherited from its revolutionary past? How do the realities and memories, aesthetics and practices of the Mao era still reverberate in the post-Mao cultural landscape? The essays in this volume propose "red legacies" as a new critical framework from which to examine the profusion of cultural productions and afterlives of the communist revolution in order to understand China's continuities and transformations from socialism to postsocialism. Organized into five parts--red foundations, red icons, red classics, red bodies, and red shadows--the book's interdisciplinary contributions focus on visual and performing arts, literature and film, language and thought, architecture, museums, and memorials. Mediating at once unfulfilled ideals and unmourned ghosts across generations, red cultural legacies suggest both inheritance and debt, and can be mobilized to support as well as to critique the status quo.

Contents:

Introduction: discerning red legacies in China / Jie Li

Part 1. Red foundations: Making a revolutionary monument: the site of the first National Congress of the Chinese Communist party / Denise Ho

Building big, with no regret: from Beijing's "ten great buildings" in the 1950s to China's mega-projects today / Tao Zhu

Part 2. Red art: Ambiguities of address: cultural revolution posters and their post-Mao appeal / Harriet Evans

The legacy of socialist visual experience / Xiaobing Tang

Part 3. Red classics: Performing the "Red classics": from the East is Red to the Road to prosperity / Xiaomei Chen

Red legacy in fiction / David Der-wei Wang

Post-socialist realism in Chinese cinema / Jason McGrath

Part 4. Red bodies: Mao's two bodies: on the curious (political) art of impersonating the great helmsman / Haiyan Lee

"Human wave tactics": Zhang Yimou, cinematic ritual, and the problems of crowds / Andy Rodekohr

Time out of joint: commemoration and commodification of socialism in Yan Lianke's Lenin's kisses / Carlos Rojas

Part 5. Red shadows: Memory places of the Mao era: a survey and notes for future curators / Jie Li

Red allure and the crimson blindfold / Geremie R. Barme.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

OCLC:

1000223444

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9781684171170 DOI