Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Illustrations vii
4. Acknowledgments ix
5. Introduction: The Road and the Writer 1
6. The War Years and the Search for Form, 1945‘48
7. Ma Feng and Xi Rong, Heroes of Lüliang, and “Revolutionary Popular Literature” 15
8. Zhou Libo, Hurricane, and the Creation of a Chinese Socialist Realism 46
9. The Great Leap Forward and the Stuff of Heroism, 1959–62
10. Li Zhun’s “A Brief Biography of Li Shuangshuang”: A Fast-Talking Vixen Creates a Village Canteen 71
11. Hu Wanchun’s “A Man of Outstanding Quality”: Pavel, but Not Rita, and Certainly Not Ingrid, in the Shanghai Dockyards 93
12. The Cultural Revolution and the Spirit of Struggle, 1972–76
13. Hao Ran on The Golden Road: Transformations in Rural China 111
14. Zhang Kangkang at The Dividing Line: Urban Youth at War with Nature 136
15. After Mao: Reversing Judgments, 1979–80
16. Chen Guokai’s The Price: The Flood of Tears 161
17. Zhang Yigong’s The Story of the Criminal Li Tongzhong: Work with the Spade 180
18. Epilogue: A Golden Road to Nowhere 198
19. Notes 210
20. Bibliography 253
21. Index 266
22. Contemporary Chinese Studies 283