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Staging Chinese Revolution : theater, film, and the afterlives of propaganda /

Staging Chinese Revolution surveys fifty years of theatrical propaganda performances in China, revealing a dynamic, commercial capacity in works often dismissed as artifacts of censorship. Spanning the 1960s through the 2010s, Xiaomei Chen reads films, plays, operas, and television shows from an int...

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Main Author: Chen, Xiaomei, 1954- (Author)
Language:English
Published: New York : Columbia University Press, [2017]
Subjects and Genres:
Theater > Political aspects > China > History > 20th century.
Heads of state > China > Biography.
Biography > Political aspects.
China > History > 1949- > Historiography.
China.
China > Politics and government > 1949- > Biography.
Biographies.
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505 0 |a Introduction: Propaganda performance, history, and landscape -- The place of Chen Duxiu: political theater, dramatic history, and the question of representation -- Returning a people's hero: a "new" legacy in the plays of Mao -- Staging Deng Xiaoping: the "incorrigible capitalist roader" -- Performing the "red classics": three revolutionary music-and-dance epics and their peaceful restorations -- Epilogue: Where are the "founding mothers"?. 
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505 0 |a Introduction: Propaganda performance, history, and landscape -- The place of Chen Duxiu: political theater, dramatic history, and the question of representation -- The return of Mao Zedong: a people's hero and a "new" legacy in postsocialist performance -- The stage of Deng Xiaoping: the "incorrigible capitalist roader" -- The myth of the "red classics": three revolutionary music-and-dance epics and their peaceful restorations -- Epilogue: Where are the "founding mothers"? 
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