Red Legacies in China : : Cultural Afterlives of the Communist Revolution / / Edited by Jie Li, Enhua Zhang.

• Superior document: Harvard Contemporary China Series ; 18
• TeilnehmendeR: Li, Jie,; Zhang, Enhua,
• Place / Publishing House: Boston : : Harvard University Asia Center,, 2016.; Leiden; , Boston : : BRILL,, 2016.
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Harvard Contemporary China Series ; 18.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.

What has contemporary China inherited from its revolutionary past? How do the realities and memories, aesthetics and practices of the Mao era still reverberate in the post-Mao cultural landscape? The essays in this volume propose "red legacies" as a new critical framework from which to exa...

Table of Contents

• Introduction: discerning red legacies in China / Jie Li
• Part 1. Red foundations: Making a revolutionary monument: the site of the first National Congress of the Chinese Communist party / Denise Ho
• Building big, with no regret: from Beijing's "ten great buildings" in the 1950s to China's mega-projects today / Tao Zhu
• Part 2. Red art: Ambiguities of address: cultural revolution posters and their post-Mao appeal / Harriet Evans
• The legacy of socialist visual experience / Xiaobing Tang
• Part 3. Red classics: Performing the "Red classics": from the East is Red to the Road to prosperity / Xiaomei Chen
• Red legacy in fiction / David Der-wei Wang
• Post-socialist realism in Chinese cinema / Jason McGrath
• Part 4. Red bodies: Mao's two bodies: on the curious (political) art of impersonating the great helmsman / Haiyan Lee
• "Human wave tactics": Zhang Yimou, cinematic ritual, and the problems of crowds / Andy Rodekohr
• Time out of joint: commemoration and commodification of socialism in Yan Lianke's Lenin's kisses / Carlos Rojas
• Part 5. Red shadows: Memory places of the Mao era: a survey and notes for future curators / Jie Li
• Red allure and the crimson blindfold / Geremie R. Barme.