Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. PREFACE ix
4. NOTE ON ROMANIZATION xvii
5. PART I The Ground Prepared, 1937-1949
6. 1. Folk Art as Propaganda: The Yangge Movement in Yan'an 1
7. 2. Shanghai's "Orphan Island" and the Development of Modern Drama 36
8. 3. Critical Ground: The Transformation of the May Fourth Era 54
9. Part II The Push to Popularize, 1949-1979
10. 4. The Genie and the Lamp: Revolutionary Xiangsheng 83
11. 5. Geming Gequ: Songs for the Education of the Masses 112
12. 6. Model Opera as Model: From Shajiabang to Sagabong 144
13. 7. From Romantic Love to Class Struggle: Reflections on the Film Liu Sanjie 165
14. 8. The Film Industry 1n the 1970s 177
15. 9. Making the Past Serve the Present in Fiction and Drama: From the Yan'an Forum to the Cultural Revolution 197
16. 10. A Notable Sermon: The Subtext of Hao Ran's Fiction 224
17. 11. Contemporary Chinese Poetry and Its Search for an Ideal Form 244
18. Part III Three Decades in Historical Perspective
19. 12. Writers and Performers, Their Works, and Their Audiences in the First Three Decades 267
20. CONTRIBUTORS 305
21. Glossary 307
22. SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY 325
23. INDEX 329