Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction 1
5. PART ONE Theater Founding Fathers: Liberal Aesthetics in the Republican Period
6. ONE Tian Han and His Legacy: Proletarian Modernism and “The Theater of Dramatists” 25
7. TWO Hong Shen and His Discontent: Canonicity Through Theory and Practice 65
8. THREE Ouyang Yuqian and His Theater Dream: Cross-Dressing, Drama Schools, and Theater Reforms 98
9. PART TWO Chinese Socialist Theater and Its Afterlife: Shifting “Classics” and Their Place in Cultural Transformation
10. FOUR Is Socialism Good? Satirical Comedy and the Gray Theater of the 1950s 143
11. FIVE The Tales of the Wives: The Mao-Era Metamorphosis of the “Red Classics” and Their Postsocialist Reinscriptions 173
12. SIX “The Song of the Geologists” Remembering Scientists Onstage 202
13. SEVEN Monumental Theater Soldier Plays and History Plays 249
14. EIGHT Singing “The Internationale” One Hundred Years of Sonic Theater 268
15. Notes 289
16. Bibliography 329
17. Index 347