Acknowledgements; List of Illustrations; Introduction; Chapter One The Pingtan System; Chapter Two Cutting the Tail: The Founding of the Shanghai Troupe in the Early 1950s; Chapter Three Politics as Entertainment: Middle-Length Pingtan Stories in the 1950s and 1960s; Chapter Four Between the Association and the State: The Guangyu Incident in 1957; Chapter Five Between Accommodation and Resistance: Pingtan Storytelling on the Eve of the Cultural Revolution; Chapter Six Beyond Spiritual Pollution: The Odysseys of Su Yuyin and Yang Zijiang
Chapter Seven Between Nostalgic and Critical: Political Pingtan Stories at the Turn of the New MillenniumEpilogue Re-Patronizing Pingtan Storytelling; List of Interviewees; Bibliography; Index
Summary
In Gilded Voices, Qiliang He focuses on pingtan, a storytelling art using the Suzhou dialect, to explore the role of the cultural market in mediating between the state and artists in the PRC era
