LEADER 04115nam 2200625 450 001 9910798730503321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-231-54161-9 024 7 $a10.7312/chen16638 035 $a(CKB)3710000000892367 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)16293693 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)14883603 035 $a(PQKB)22795699 035 $a(DE-B1597)478190 035 $a(OCoLC)979577927 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780231541619 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4708996 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11275733 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL968628 035 $a(OCoLC)960163375 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4708996 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000892367 100 $a20161017h20172017 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aStaging Chinese revolution $etheater, film, and the afterlives of propaganda /$fXiaomei Chen 210 1$aNew York, [New York] :$cColumbia University Press,$d2017. 210 4$dİ2017 215 $a1 online resource (378 pages) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-231-16638-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tIntroduction: Propaganda Performance, History, and Landscape -- $t1. The Place of Chen Duxiu. Political Theater, Dramatic History, and the Question of Representation -- $t2. The Return of Mao Zedong. A People's Hero and a "New" Legacy in Postsocialist Performance -- $t3. The Stage of Deng Xiaoping. The "Incorrigible Capitalist Roader" -- $t4. The Myth of the "Red Classics". Three Revolutionary Music-and-Dance Epics and Their Peaceful Restorations -- $tEpilogue: Where Are the "Founding Mothers"? -- $tNotes -- $tWorks Cited -- $tIndex 330 $aStaging Chinese Revolution surveys fifty years of theatrical propaganda performances in China, revealing a dynamic, commercial capacity in works often dismissed as artifacts of censorship. Spanning the 1960s through the 2010s, Xiaomei Chen reads films, plays, operas, and television shows from an interdisciplinary and comparative perspective, demonstrating how, in a socialist state with "capitalist characteristics," propaganda performance turns biographies, memoirs, and war stories into mainstream ideological commodities, legitimizing the state and its right to rule. Analyzing propaganda performance also brings contradictions and inconsistencies to light that throw common understandings about propaganda's purpose into question.Chen focuses on revisionist histories that stage the lives of the "founding fathers" of the Communist Party, such as Chen Duxiu, Mao Zedong, and Deng Xiaoping, and the engaging mix of elite and ordinary characters that animate official propaganda in the private and public sphere. Taking the form of "personal" memories and representing star and youth culture and cyberspace, contemporary Chinese propaganda appeals through multiple perspectives, complicating relations among self, subject, agent, state building, and national identity. Chen treats Chinese performance as an extended form of political theater confronting critical issues of commemoration, nostalgia, state rituals, and contested history. It is through these reenactments that three generations of revolutionary leaders loom in extraordinary ways over Chinese politics and culture. 606 $aTheater$xPolitical aspects$zChina$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aHeads of state$zChina$vBiography 606 $aBiography$xPolitical aspects 607 $aChina$xHistory$y1949-$xHistoriography 607 $aChina$xPolitics and government$y1949-$vBiography 615 0$aTheater$xPolitical aspects$xHistory 615 0$aHeads of state 615 0$aBiography$xPolitical aspects. 676 $a951.05072 686 $aAP 17340$2rvk 700 $aChen$b Xiaomei$f1954-$01496785 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910798730503321 996 $aStaging Chinese revolution$93721627 997 $aUNINA