Voices in Revolution : : Poetry and the Auditory Imagination in Modern China / / John A. Crespi.

China's century of revolutionary change has been heard as much as seen, and nowhere is this more evident than in an auditory history of the modern Chinese poem. From Lu Xun's seminal writings on literature to a recitation renaissance in urban centers today, poetics meets politics in the so...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Backlist (2000-2014) eBook Package
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Place / Publishing House:Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2009]
©2009
Year of Publication:2009
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (248 p.) :; 11 b&w images
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • 1. Poetic Interiorities: From Civilization to Nation
  • 2. Poetry Off The Page: Sound Aesthetics in Print
  • 3. Inventing Recitation: Poetry and the Idea of the Sounding Voice During the War of Resistance
  • 4. Wartime Recitals and the Consolidation of a Genre
  • 5. Zhu Ziqing and Situational Poetics: Sounding Out an Alternative
  • 6. Calculated Passions: The Lyric and the Theatric in Mao-Era Poetry Recitation
  • 7. From Yundong to Huodong: The Value of Poetry Recitation in Postsocialist China
  • Notes
  • Glossary
  • Works Cited
  • Index
  • About the Author