Staging Chinese Revolution : Theater, Film, and the Afterlives of Propaganda /
Xiaomei Chen.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Propaganda Performance, History, and Landscape -- 1. The Place of Chen Duxiu. Political Theater, Dramatic History, and the Question of Representation -- 2. The Return of Mao Zedong. A People's Hero and a "New" Legacy in Postsocialist Performance -- 3. The Stage of Deng Xiaoping. The "Incorrigible Capitalist Roader" -- 4. The Myth of the "Red Classics". Three Revolutionary Music-and-Dance Epics and Their Peaceful Restorations -- Epilogue: Where Are the "Founding Mothers"? -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index