Gilded Voices
Economics, Politics, and Storytelling in the Yangzi Delta since 1949
Biographical note
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.
Readership
All interested in Chinese cultural history of the twentieth century, and anyone concerned with China's performing arts such as drama and storytelling.
Reviews
“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
Table of contents
Introduction
Chapter 1: The Pingtan System
Chapter 2: Cutting the Tail: The Founding of the Shanghai Troupe in the Early 1950s
Chapter 3: Politics as Entertainments: Middle-length Pingtan Stories in the 1950s and 1960s
Chapter 4: Between the Association and the State: The Guangyu Incident in 1957
Chapter 5: Between Accommodation and Resistance: Pingtan Storytelling in the 1960s
Chapter 6: Beyond Spiritual Pollution: The Odysseys of Su Yuyin and Yang Zijiang
Chapter 7: Between Nostalgic and Critical: Political Pingtan Stories at the Turn of the New Millennium
Epilogue: Re-patronizing Pingtan Storytelling
List of Interviewees
Bibliography
Chapter 1: The Pingtan System
Chapter 2: Cutting the Tail: The Founding of the Shanghai Troupe in the Early 1950s
Chapter 3: Politics as Entertainments: Middle-length Pingtan Stories in the 1950s and 1960s
Chapter 4: Between the Association and the State: The Guangyu Incident in 1957
Chapter 5: Between Accommodation and Resistance: Pingtan Storytelling in the 1960s
Chapter 6: Beyond Spiritual Pollution: The Odysseys of Su Yuyin and Yang Zijiang
Chapter 7: Between Nostalgic and Critical: Political Pingtan Stories at the Turn of the New Millennium
Epilogue: Re-patronizing Pingtan Storytelling
List of Interviewees
Bibliography
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