Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. PREFACE ix
4. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xi
5. CHRONOLOGY OF MAJOR EVENTS xv
6. Introduction PAINTING BY CANDLELIGHT IN MAO’S CHINA 1
7. 1 Cartoonists
8. CHAPTER 1 Ding Cong’s True Story of the Outcast Ah Q 15
9. CHAPTER 2 Feng Zikai Protests the Giant Hedge Cutters 31
10. 2 Academy Painters and a President
11. CHAPTER 3 Li Keran’s Luminous Path through Mountains 51
12. CHAPTER 4 Li Kuchan’s Eagle Gazes Far 75
13. CHAPTER 5 Huang Yongyu’s Eye Talk 95
14. CHAPTER 6 Pan Tianshou’s Nocturne for a Plum Tree 115
15. 3 Communist Idealist Shi Lu
16. CHAPTER 7 Inside the Secret Notebook 137
17. CHAPTER 8 At Cliff ’s Edge 155
18. CHAPTER 9 From Trauma to Recovery 179
19. Conclusion 203
20. APPENDIX Poems from Shi Lu’s Secret Notebook, ca. 1973–75 211
21. NOTES 215
22. GLOSSARY 245
23. BIBLIOGRAPHY 253
24. INDEX 275