Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Illustrations vii
4. Preface xi
5. Introduction 3
6. Artists and the State
7. The Art of the Cultural Revolution 27
8. Summoning Confucius: Inside Shi Lu’s Imagination 58
9. Artists Remember: Two Memoirs
10. Brushes Are Weapons: An Art School and Its Artists 93
11. When We Were Young: Up to the Mountains, Down to the Villages 107
12. Meanings Then and Now
13. The Rent Collection Courtyard, Past and Present 121
14. Hu Xian Peasant Painting: From Revolutionary Icon to Market Commodity 136
15. Beyond the Visual Arts
16. Model Theatrical Works and the Remodelling of the Cultural Revolution 167
17. Feminism in the Revolutionary Model Ballets The White-Haired Girl and The Red Detachment of Women 188
18. Fantasies of Battle: Making the Militant Hero Prominent 203
19. Notes 216
20. Bibliography 245
21. Acknowledgments 256
22. Contributors 257
23. Index 259