Title Internationalist aesthetics : China and early Soviet culture / Edward Tyerman

Published New York : Columbia University Press, [2022]

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 353 pages) : illustrations Series Studies of the Harriman Institute of Columbia University Studies of the Harriman Institute. Contents Introduction: China and early Soviet culture -- Sight, sound, and similarity: Soviet writers travel to China -- Translating China onstage: Roar, China! and The red poppy -- Through an internationalist lens: China in early Soviet cinema -- Confessions and collaborations: authority, agency, agency and factographic internationalism in Den Shi-khua -- Epilogue: International literature, national form, and missed connections Summary "While the Third Communist International (Comintern) supported nationalist revolution in China, Soviet writers and film-makers traveled to China, met with Chinese students in Moscow, and sought to reimagine China for a Soviet audience as the next site of world revolution. Their artistic experiments constituted a search for an "internationalist aesthetics": a mode of representation that could overcome the exoticism of imperialist culture and produce transnational sympathies between populations previously considered culturally distant. Contributing to a recent cultural turn in the study of socialist internationalism, Internationalist Aesthetics positions China in the 1920s as the central space for Soviet culture's attempt to imagine how internationalism was supposed to look and feel. Tyerman traces the reimagining of China through the multiple genres and media of the early Soviet cultural system, including reportage, film, theater, and biography. This account offers new insight into the transnational dynamics that shaped Soviet culture and socialist aesthetics, and illuminates a crucial chapter in Sino-Russian relations, one of the most significant international relationships of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 23, 2021) Subject Communism and culture -- Soviet Union -- History Communist aesthetics. Mass media and culture -- Soviet Union -- History HISTORY / Asia / China Communism and culture Communist aesthetics Diplomatic relations Mass media Mass media and culture Public opinion, Chinese SUBJECT Soviet Union -- Foreign relations -- China China -- Foreign relations -- Soviet Union China -- In mass media China -- Foreign public opinion, Soviet Union Soviet Union -- Foreign public opinion, Chinese Subject China Soviet Union Genre/Form History Form Electronic book LC no. 2021015967 ISBN 9780231552981 023155298X

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