Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Epigraph v
3. Contents vii
4. Acknowledgments ix
5. Introduction 1
6. 1. Learning to Write, Learning to Labor: The Yan’an Way and the Birth of the Culture Worker 20
7. 2. Lazy Peasants, Productive Proletarians: The Developmental Logic of Cultural Labor and Uneven Development 61
8. 3. Time for Communism: Mass Writing, Revolutionary Form, and “Bourgeois Right” 96
9. 4. Reproducing Revolution: Cultural Reconstruction and the Aesthetics of Communist Heroism 136
10. 5. In and Out of Petersburg: Soul and Writing Under Late Maoism 177
11. Thermidor (By Way of Conclusion) 217
12. Notes 235
13. Selected Bibliography 265
14. Index 269