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Forty years after China's tumultuous Cultural Revolution, this book revisits the visual and performing arts of the period � the paintings, propaganda posters, political cartoons, sculpture, folk arts, private sketchbooks, opera, and ballet � and examines what these vibrant, militant, often gaudy images meant to artists, their patrons, and their audiences at the time, and what they mean now, both in their original forms and as revolutionary icons reworked for a new market-oriented age. Chapters by scholars of Chinese history and art and by artists whose careers were shaped by the Cultural Revolution offer new insights into works that have transcended their times.

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  1. Title Page, Copyright
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  1. Contents
  2. pp. v-vi
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  1. Illustrations
  2. pp. vii-x
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  1. Preface
  2. pp. xi-xii
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  1. Introduction: Vibrant Images of a Turbulent Decade
  2. Richard King, Jan Walls
  3. pp. 3-24
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  1. Part 1: Artists and the State
  1. 1. The Art of the Cultural Revolution
  2. Julia F. Andrews
  3. pp. 27-57
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  1. 2. Summoning Confucius: Inside Shi Lu’s Imagination
  2. Shelley Drake Hawks
  3. pp. 58-90
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  1. Part 2: Artists Remember: Two Memoirs
  1. 3. Brushes Are Weapons: An Art School and Its Artists
  2. Shengtian Zheng
  3. pp. 93-106
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  1. 4. When We Were Young: Up to the Mountains, Down to the Villages
  2. Gu Xiong
  3. pp. 107-118
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  1. Part 3: Meanings Then and Now
  1. 5. The Rent Collection Courtyard, Past and Present
  2. Britta Erickson
  3. pp. 121-135
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  1. 6. Hu Xian Peasant Painting: From Revolutionary Icon to Market Commodity
  2. Ralph Croizier
  3. pp. 136-164
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  1. Part 4: Beyond the Visual Arts
  1. 7. Model Theatrical Works and the Remodelling of the Cultural Revolution
  2. Paul Clark
  3. pp. 167-187
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  1. 8. Feminism in the Revolutionary Model Ballets The White-Haired Girl and The Red Detachment of Women
  2. Bai Di
  3. pp. 188-202
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  1. 9. Fantasies of Battle: Making the Militant Hero Prominent
  2. Richard King
  3. pp. 203-215
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  1. Notes
  2. pp. 216-244
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  1. Bibliography
  2. pp. 245-255
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  1. Acknowledgments
  2. p. 256
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  1. Contributors
  2. pp. 257-258
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  1. Index
  2. pp. 259-282
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