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The art of cloning : creative production during China's Cultural Revolution / Laikwan Pang.
Author
Pang, Laikwan
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Format
Book
Language
English
Published/Created
London ; Brooklyn, NY : Verso, 2017.
Description
xii, 308 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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DS778.7 .P37 2017
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Subject(s)
Arts
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Political aspects
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China
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History
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20th century
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Autonomy
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Social aspects
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China
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History
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20th century
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Conformity
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Political aspects
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China
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History
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20th century
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Cultural pluralism
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China
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History
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20th century
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China
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History
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Cultural Revolution, 1966-1976
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China
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Intellectual life
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1949-1976
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Summary note
"Cultural production under Mao, and how artists and thinkers found autonomy in a culture of conformity. In the 1950s, a French journalist joked that the Chinese were 'blue ants under the red flag,' dressing identically and even marching in an identical fashion. When the Cultural Revolution officially began, this uniformity seemed to extend to the mind. From the outside, this was a monotonous world, full of repetitions and imitation, but a closer look reveals a range of cultural experiences, which also provided individuals with an obscure sense of freedom. In The Art of Cloning, Pang Laikwan examines this period in Chinese history when ordinary citizens read widely, travelled extensively through the country, and engaged in a range of cultural and artistic activities. The freedom they experienced, argues Pang, differs from the freedom, under Western capitalism, to express individuality through a range of consumer products. However, it was far from boring, and filled with its own kind of diversity"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-291) and index.
Contents
I: Art, politics, and economics
Maoist aesthetics
Production and circulation of literature under the revolutionary cultural economy
II: A culture of models and copies
Art and the culture of models and copies
Barefoot doctors and femininity
Opera and transplantation between cultures
Ballet across genres and forms
Mao as doxa
Intellectuals as ghosts
Chinese Glossary.
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ISBN
9781784785192 ((hardback))
1784785199 ((hardback))
9781784785208
1784785202
LCCN
2016044831
OCLC
947796387
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