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Red Legacies in China: Cultural Afterlives of the Communist Revolution
Christopher C. Lee
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Paperback. In Red Legacies in China, Mao-era legacies serve as a framework to examine the cultural productions and afterlives of the communist revolution in order to understand China's continuities and transformations from socialism to postsocialism. Essays discuss arts, literature and film, language and thought, architecture, museums, and memorials. Editor(s): Li, Jie; Zhang, Enhua. Series: Harvard Contemporary China Series. Num Pages: 420 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; HBJF; JPFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152. .
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, ... Read more
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, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Harvard University, Asia Center
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Series
Harvard Contemporary China Series
Condition
New
Weight
589g
Number of Pages
420
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780674737181
SKU
V9780674737181
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About Christopher C. Lee
Jie Li is Assistant Professor in the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University. Enhua Zhang is Assistant Professor in the Department of Asian Languages and Literatures at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
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