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The Avant-Garde and the Popular in Modern China
Liang Luo
其他書名
Tian Han and the Intersection of Performance and Politics
出版
University of Michigan Press
, 2014-07-15
主題
Biography & Autobiography / Literary Figures
Drama / Asian / General
History / Asia / China
Literary Criticism / Asian / General
Literary Criticism / Drama
Literary Criticism / Subjects & Themes / Politics
Performing Arts / General
Performing Arts / Theater / General
Performing Arts / Theater / History & Criticism
Philosophy / Aesthetics
Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural & Social
ISBN
0472052179
9780472052172
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=Nh3zAwAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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The Avant-Garde and the Popular in Modern China
explores how an important group of Chinese performing artists invested in politics and the pursuit of the avant-garde came to terms with different ways of being “popular” in modern times. In particular, playwright and activist Tian Han (1898-1968) exemplified the instability of conventional delineations between the avant-garde, popular culture, and political propaganda. Liang Luo traces Tian’s trajectory through key moments in the evolution of twentieth-century Chinese national culture, from the Christian socialist cosmopolitanism of post–WWI Tokyo to the urban modernism of Shanghai in 1920s and 30s, then into the Chinese hinterland during the late 1930s and 40s, and finally to the Communist Beijing of the 1950s, revealing the dynamic interplay of art and politics throughout this period. Understanding Tian in his time sheds light upon a new generation of contemporary Chinese avant-gardists (Ai Wei Wei being the best known), who, half a century later, are similarly engaging national politics and popular culture.