Title A continuous revolution : making sense of Cultural Revolution culture / Barbara Mittler

Published Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Asia Center, 2012

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 486 pages) : illustrations (black and white) Series Harvard East Asian monographs ; 343 Harvard East Asian monographs ; 343. Contents Introduction: nose -- smells -- Popular culture and cultural revolution culture: theory, practice, and experience -- Art as propaganda -- (Subjective) Receptions of propaganda -- (Objective) Forms of propaganda -- Variety and availability: art as education -- Propaganda and pop: art for entertainment -- Continuity and repetition: art in history -- Part I. Ears -- sounds -- Prologue -- 1. From Mozart to Mao to Mozart : musical revolutions in China -- Prelude: Chinese music and new Chinese music -- Exposition: China and Mozart -- Development: Mao -- Excursion 1. Chinese opera as a genre of change: a view from history -- "To wield through the old to create the new": musical traditions in the model works -- "To wield through the foreign to create a Chinese national art": approaches to foreign music in the model works -- Serving the people: the politics of model music and performance -- Excursion 2. Chinese opera reform: a view from history -- The artistic success of the model works -- Recapitulation: Mozart and China -- Coda: foreign music and foreign-style Chinese music -- 2. The sounds amidst the fury: Cultural Revolution songs from Xian Xinghai to Cui Jian -- "Red is the East" -- The "internationale" -- Medley: mixing songs from amidst the fury -- Coda -- Part II. Mouth-words -- Prologue -- 3. Destroying the old and learning from black material: the political fate of a famous school primer -- Old and new: the Three Character Classic before and after the Cultural Revolution -- Black material: the Three Character Classic and the Cultural Revolution -- Rethinking Confucius before the Cultural Revolution -- Rethinking Confucius during the Cultural Revolution -- Memories: reconfiguring Confucius after the Cultural Revolution -- 4. The foolish old man who moved the mountains: superscribing a foundational myth -- Prelude: depicting the power of words -- The story -- The (Hi)story behind the story -- Quoting the story during the Cultural Revolution -- (Hi)story and quotation beyond the Cultural Revolution -- Coda: rethinking the power of words -- Part III. Eyes-images -- Mao wherever you go : the art of repetition in revolutionary China -- Repeating Mao: MaoArt and its implied audience -- Repetition? -- Not to be repeated! Part 1: Modernisms? -- Not to be repeated! Part 2: Traditionalisms? -- Repetition squared: repeating the repeated -- Repetition reconsidered -- Receiving Mao: the actual audience of MaoArt -- Ubiquity! -- Ubiquity? -- Deity! -- Deity? -- Revisiting Mao: MaoArt then and now -- 6. Chained(ed) pictures and chained by pictures: comics and cultural revolutions in China -- Heroes, villains, and sexuality -- Readers, readings, and popularity -- Monkeys, demons, and continuity -- Conclusion: Hands-touch -- Cultural Revolution culture and popular culture : theorizing practice and experience -- Propaganda's grammar -- Propaganda's space -- Propaganda's time -- Turning the pages of history? -- Appendixes: -- 1: List of interviewees -- 2: Interview questions -- 3: Chronology of the model works -- Reference Matter: -- Works cited -- Index of names, titles, and slogans -- Subject index Summary "Cultural Revolution Culture is often denigrated as mere propaganda. Yet it was not only liked in its heyday but continues to be enjoyed today. This book sets out to explain this legacy. By considering Cultural Revolution propaganda art--music, stage works, prints and posters, comics, and literature--from the point of view of its longue durée, Barbara Mittler suggests that it was able to build on a tradition of earlier art works. This in turn allowed for its sedimentation in cultural memory and its proliferation in contemporary China. Taking the aesthetic experience of the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976) as her base, Mittler combines close readings and analyses of cultural products from the period with insights gained from a series of personal interviews conducted in the early 2000s with Chinese from diverse class and generational backgrounds. By including testimony from these original voices, Mittler illustrates the extremely multifaceted and contradictory nature of the Cultural Revolution in artistic production and as cultural experience."--Jacket Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Subject Arts, Chinese -- 20th century. Arts, Chinese -- 21st century Arts -- Political aspects -- China Arts and society -- China POLITICAL SCIENCE / Propaganda Arts and society Arts, Chinese Arts -- Political aspects Civilization Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) Kulturrevolution Massenkultur Kulturrevolutionen, Kina, 1966-1976 -- influenser. Konst och samhälle -- Kina. Kinesisk konst -- politiska aspekter. SUBJECT China -- History -- Cultural Revolution, 1966-1976 -- Influence China -- Civilization -- 1976-2002. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99010765 China -- Civilization -- 2002- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2004006870 Subject China China Kina -- kultur- och samhällsliv. Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9781684175185 1684175186

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