Gender and Subjectivities in Early Twentieth-Century Chinese Literature and Culture offers an in-depth study on how late Qing and modern Chinese intellectuals used gender as a discursive battlefield t
This book is the first of its kind in English to explore the musical culture of China's Cultural Revolution. Contributors discuss the history, politics, and aesthetics of a full range of music and per
Staging China: New Theatres in the Twenty-First Century is an insightful analysis of more than a dozen stage productions. Accounts of theatre practitioners and their artistic and ideological decisions
This detailed, chronological study investigates the rise of the European fascination with the Chinese language up to 1615. By meticulously investigating a wide range of primary sources, Dinu Luca iden
Feminism, Women’s Agency, and Communication in Early Twentieth-Century China focuses on a sensational elopement in the Yangzi Delta in the late 1920s to explore how middle- and lower-class members of
In the Maoist period, authors and the communist literary establishment shared the belief that art could reshape reality, and was thus just as crucial to the political establishment as building new inf
Bringing together the most recent research on the Cultural Revolution in China, musicologists, historians, literary scholars, and others discuss the music and its political implications. Combined, the
Ideology and Utopia in China’s New Wave Cinema investigates the ways in which New Wave filmmakers represent China in this age of neoliberal reform. Analyzing this paradigm shift in independent cinema,
"This book explores the ways the narration of the nation in popular literatures, film, and television gives rise to various public discourses of contemporary China, and defines social subjects such as
