Literature & Memoirs
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Talks at the Yenan Forum of Literature and Art byCall Number: PL2302.M29 T8 1956 (online also)Publication Date: 19--? ( Ann Arbor, Mich. : Students for a Democratic Society)(The key Communist document which defines the role of literature and art in relation to politics." (from Modern Chinese Fiction, a Guide to Its Study and Appreciation" REF Z 3108 L5 Y23)
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The Red Pear Garden: Three Great Dramas of Revolutionary China
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Includes The White Snake, The Wild Boar Forest, and Taking Tiger Mountain by Strategy. The "Red Pear Garden" was originally a corps of actors & courtesans assembled by emperor Tang Ming Hwang c.714. This book examines how the Revolution influenced drama and the Peking Opera's role in it.
Call Number: PL2658.E5 M68 +Publication Date: 1974 ( [Boston] D. R. Godine) -
Little Leap Forward
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In Communist China in 1966, eight-year-old Leap Forward learns about freedom while flying kites with his best friend, by trying to get a caged wild bird to sing, and through the music he is learning to play on a bamboo flute. Includes author's notes on his childhood in Beijing, life under Mao Zedong, and the Cultural Revolution.
Call Number: PZ7.Y89653 Lit 2008 (in Olin Library)Publication Date: 2008 ( Cambridge, MA : Barefoot Books) -
The Little Red Guard: A Family Memoir
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(A Washington Post Best of 2012 pick.) Three generations of a family living under one roof reflect the dramatic transformations of an entire society in this memoir... The grandmother insists she be buried, not cremated as ordered by the ban on burials in the 1970's.. The family had to hide her coffin for 15 years. Lyrical and poignant, funny and heartrending, The Little Red Guard is the powerful tale of an ordinary family finding their way through turbulence and transition.
Call Number: DS 797.68 X536 H83 2012Publication Date: 2012 ( New York : Riverhead Books) -
The Cowshed: Memories of the Chinese Cultural Revolution
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The Cowshed is Ji's Xianlin's harrowing account of his imprisonment in 1968 on the campus of Peking University and his subsequent disillusionment with the cult of Mao. As the campus spirals into a political frenzy, Ji, a professor of Eastern languages, is persecuted by lecturers and students from his own department. His home is raided, his most treasured possessions are destroyed, and Ji himself must endure hours of humiliation at brutal "struggle sessions." He is forced to construct a cowshed (a makeshift prison for intellectuals who were labeled class enemies) in which he is then housed with other former colleagues.
Call Number: CT 3990 J48 A3 2016Publication Date: 2016 -
Memories of the Cultural Revolution
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At once a work of narrative lyricism and an act of personal courage, this memoir in verse documents the human cost of a period of political turmoil in China's recent past. Luo Ying--the pen name of Huang Nubo, a celebrated poet, Forbes billionaire, and mountain climber--draws readers into the depths of the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976) by rendering its defining moments in his life with devastating precision and clarity.
Call Number: PL 2880 U834 W4614 2016Publication Date: 2015 ( Norman : University of Oklahoma Press)
Arts
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The Making and Remaking of China's "Red Classics": Politics, Aesthetics, and Mass Culture
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[This book] is the first full-length work to bring together research on the "red classics" across the entire Maoist period through to the reform era. It covers a representative range of genres including novels, short stories, films, TV series, picture books, animation, and traditional-style paintings. Collectively, the chapters offer a panoramic view of the production and reception of the original "red classics" and the adaptations and remakes of such works after the Cultural Revolution. The contributors present fascinating stories of how a work came to be regarded as, or failed to become, a "red classic."
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Art in Turmoil: the Chinese Cultural Revolution, 1966-76 byPublication Date: 2010 ( Vancouver [B.C.] : UBC Press)Art in Turmoil revisits the visual and performing arts of the period - the paintings, propaganda posters, political cartoons, sculpture, folk arts, private sketchbooks, opera, and ballet. Probing deeply, it examines what these vibrant, militant, often gaudy images meant to artists, their patrons, and their audiences at the time,
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The Art of Resistance: Painting by Candlelight in Mao's China
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The Art of Resistance surveys the lives of seven painters--Ding Cong (1916-2009), Feng Zikai (1898-1975), Li Keran (1907-89), Li Kuchan (1898-1983), Huang Yongyu (b. 1924), Pan Tianshou (1897-1971), and Shi Lu (1919-82)--during China's Cultural Revolution (1966-1976), a time when they were considered counterrevolutionary and were forbidden to paint. These fiercely independent artists took advantage of moments of low surveillance to secretly "paint by candlelight." In doing so, they created symbolically charged art that is open to multiple interpretations.
Call Number: N72.P6 H38 2017 +Publication Date: 2017 ( Seattle : University of Washington Press) -
Curating Revolution: Politics on Display in Mao's China
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How did China's Communist revolution transform the nation's political culture? In this rich and vivid history of the Mao period (1949-1976), Denise Y. Ho examines the relationship between its exhibitions and its political movements. Case studies from Shanghai show how revolution was curated: museum workers collected cultural and revolutionary relics; neighborhoods, schools, and work units mounted and narrated local displays; and exhibits provided ritual space for ideological lessons and political campaigns. Using archival sources, ephemera, interviews, and other materials, Ho traces the process by which exhibitions were developed, presented, and received.
Call Number: AM72.A2 H6 2018Publication Date: 2018 ( Cambridge : Cambridge University Press) -
Mao's Graphic Voice: Pictorial Posters from the Cultural Revolution
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Call Number: DS778.7 .P69x 1996 +Publication Date: 1996 (Madison : Elvehjem Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin--Madison)From an exhibition of posters at Elvehjem Museum of Art, Madison, Wis., Aug. 31-Oct. 27, 1996. -
Chinese Posters:Art from the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution
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The Cultural Revolution in China produced thousands of powerful social and political posters exhorting the Chinese people in a sweeping transformation of Chinese society. These brilliantly colorful images of cultural celebration, industrial development, agricultural production, and revolutionary heroes were displayed in homes and public spaces across the country.
Call Number: DS778.7 .C87 2007Publication Date: 2007 ( San Francisco : Chronicle Books) -
Chinese Cultural Revolution PostersCall Number: Archives 6686 (Located in Rare & Manuscripts Library)Publication Date: [c. 1974]Inspirational/propaganda posters designed to support the aims of the Cultural Revolution for education, health care (including acupuncture posters), workers, etc.
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Art of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, 1966-1976
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Call Number: N7345 .W37 2002 (in Library Annex)Publication Date: 2002 ( Vancouver : Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery)Catalog of an exhibition appearing in several galleries in Canada, 2002-3. -
Mao: Art for the Masses
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Call Number: N7345 .N38x 2003 (in Library Annex)Publication Date: 2003 ( Edinburgh : The Museums)"Revolutionary art of the Mao Zedong era, 1950-1976 : Exhibition, May 1st 2003 - March 2004 [" -
Mao's Cultural Army : Drama Troupes in China's Rural Revolution
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Call Number: PN 2874 D47 2015Publication Date: 2015 (Cambridge : Cambridge University Press)Charting their training, travels, and performances, this innovative study explores the role of the artists that roamed the Chinese countryside in support of Mao's communist revolution. DeMare traces the development of Mao's 'cultural army' from its genesis in Red Army propaganda teams to its full development as a largely civilian force composed of amateur and professional drama troupes in the early years of the People's Republic of China (PRC).
