CONTENTS
List of Contributors ................................................................... vii
Understanding the Chinese Revolution through Words:
An Introduction ..................................................................... 1
Ban Wang
1. Revolution: From Literary Revolution to Revolutionary
Literature ............................................................................ 15
Jianhua Chen
2. The Long March ............................................................... 33
Enhua Zhang
3. Rectification: Party Discipline, Intellectual Remolding,
and the Formation of a Political Community ................... 51
Kirk A. Denton
4. Worker-Peasant-Soldier Literature .................................... 65
Xiaomei Chen
5. Steel Is Made through Persistent Tempering ................... 85
Xinmin Liu
6. Socialist Realism ................................................................ 101
Ban Wang
7. Political Lyric ..................................................................... 119
Xin Ning
8. Writing the Actual ............................................................. 135
Charles A. Laughlin
9. Nowhere in the World Does There Exist Love or Hatred
without Reason .................................................................. 149
Haiyan Lee
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10. Promote Physical Culture and Sport, Improve the
People’s Constitution ......................................................... 171
Xiaoning Lu
11. Typical People in Typical Circumstances ......................... 185
Richard King
12. Use the Past to Serve the Present; the Foreign to Serve
China .................................................................................. 205
Tina Mai Chen
13. Women Can Hold Up Half the Sky ................................. 227
Xueping Zhong
14. Let a Hundred Flowers Blossom, Let a Hundred
Schools of Thought Contend ............................................ 249
Richard Kraus
15. They Love Battle Array, Not Silks and Satins ................. 263
Tina Mai Chen
16. The Three Prominences .................................................... 283
Yizhong Gu
17. Revolutionary Narrative in the Seventeen Years Period ..... 305
Guo Bingru
Bibliography ................................................................................... 319
Index ............................................................................................... 335