Words and Their Stories
Essays on the Language of the Chinese Revolution
Biographical note
Ban Wang, PhD in Comparative Literature, UCLA, is the William Haas Professor in Chinese Studies at Stanford University. He has written on Chinese literature, film and aesthetics and is the author of The Sublime Figure of History (1997) and Illuminations from the Past (2004).
Table of contents
Understanding the Chinese Revolution Through Words: An Introduction
Ban Wang
1. Revolution: From Literary Revolution to Revolutionary Literature
Jianhua Chen
2. The Long March
Enhua Zhang
3. Rectification: Party Discipline, Intellectual Remolding, and the Formation of a Political Community
Kirk Denton
4. Worker-Peasant-Soldier’s Literature
Xiaomei Chen
5. Steel Is Made Through Persistent Tempering
Xinmin Liu
6. Socialist Realism
Ban Wang
7. Political Lyric
Xin Ning
8. Writing the Actual
Charles Laughlin
9. Nowhere in the World Does There Exist Love or Hatred Without Reason
Haiyan Lee
10. Promote Physical Culture and Sport, Improve the People’s Constitution
Xiaoning Lu
11. Typical People in Typical Circumstances
Richard King
12. Use the Past to Serve the Present; the Foreign to Serve China
Tina Mai Chen
13. Women Can Hold up Half the Sky
Xueping Zhong
14. Let a Hundred Flowers Blossom, Let a Hundred Schools of Thought Contend
Richard Kraus
15. They Love Battle Array, Not Silks and Satins
Tina Mai Chen
16. The Three Prominences
Yizhong Gu
17. Revolutionary Narrative in the Seventeen Years Period
Guo Bingru
Ban Wang
1. Revolution: From Literary Revolution to Revolutionary Literature
Jianhua Chen
2. The Long March
Enhua Zhang
3. Rectification: Party Discipline, Intellectual Remolding, and the Formation of a Political Community
Kirk Denton
4. Worker-Peasant-Soldier’s Literature
Xiaomei Chen
5. Steel Is Made Through Persistent Tempering
Xinmin Liu
6. Socialist Realism
Ban Wang
7. Political Lyric
Xin Ning
8. Writing the Actual
Charles Laughlin
9. Nowhere in the World Does There Exist Love or Hatred Without Reason
Haiyan Lee
10. Promote Physical Culture and Sport, Improve the People’s Constitution
Xiaoning Lu
11. Typical People in Typical Circumstances
Richard King
12. Use the Past to Serve the Present; the Foreign to Serve China
Tina Mai Chen
13. Women Can Hold up Half the Sky
Xueping Zhong
14. Let a Hundred Flowers Blossom, Let a Hundred Schools of Thought Contend
Richard Kraus
15. They Love Battle Array, Not Silks and Satins
Tina Mai Chen
16. The Three Prominences
Yizhong Gu
17. Revolutionary Narrative in the Seventeen Years Period
Guo Bingru
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