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Gilded Voices
Economics, Politics, and Storytelling in the Yangzi Delta since 1949
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Qiliang He
Language:
English
Published/Copyright:
2012
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In Gilded Voices: Economics, Politics, and Storytelling in the Yangzi Delta since 1949, Qiliang He pieces together published, archival, and oral history sources to explore the role of the cultural market in mediating between the state and artists in the PRC era. By focusing on pingtan, a storytelling art using the Suzhou dialect, the book documents both the state’s efforts to police artists and their repertoire and storytellers’ collaboration with, as well as resistance to, state supervision and intervention. The book thereby challenges long-held scholarly assumptions about the Chinese Communist Party’s success in politicizing popular culture, patronizing artists, abolishing the cultural market, and enforcing rigid censorship in Mao’s times.
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Qiliang He is Assistant Professor of History at the University of South Carolina Upstate. He has published numerous articles and translations on the culture and history of China in the twentieth century.
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“The book offers a fascinating case study that informs broader histories of censorship and theater, and explores the important ways that economic concerns helped shape cultural reform and political activism in China in since 1949."
Carla Nappi, New Books Network, New Books in East Asian Studies, Sept. 2012
Carla Nappi, New Books Network, New Books in East Asian Studies, Sept. 2012
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July 6, 2012
eBook ISBN:
9789004232440
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306
