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Mao's Cultural Army

Drama Troupes in China's Rural Revolution

By: Brian James DeMare

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Mao's Cultural Army

Drama Troupes in China's Rural Revolution

By: Brian James DeMare

Charting their training, travels, and performances, this innovative study explores the role of the artists that roamed the Chinese countryside in support of Mao's communist revolution. DeMare traces the development of Mao's 'cultural army' from its genesis in Red Army propaganda teams to its full development as a largely civilian force composed of amateur and professional drama troupes in the early years of the People's Republic of China (PRC). Drawing from memoirs, artistic handbooks, and rare archival sources, Mao's Cultural Army uncovers the arduous and complex process of creating revolutionary dramas that would appeal to China's all-important rural audiences. The Communists strived for a disciplined cultural army to promote party policies, but audiences often shunned modern and didactic shows, and instead clamoured for traditional works. DeMare illustrates how drama troupes, caught between the party and their audiences, did their best to resist the ever growing reach of the PRC state.

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Cambridge University Press

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131629966X

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9781316299661

Land Wars

The Story of China's Agrarian Revolution

By: Brian J. DeMare

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Land Wars

The Story of China's Agrarian Revolution

By: Brian J. DeMare

Land Wars: The Story of China's Agrarian Revolution explores how Mao's narrative of rural revolution became a reality, at great human cost.

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1503609510

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9781503609518

Tiger, Tyrant, Bandit, Businessman

Echoes of Counterrevolution from New China

By: Brian DeMare

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Tiger, Tyrant, Bandit, Businessman

Echoes of Counterrevolution from New China

By: Brian DeMare

The rural county of Poyang, lying in northern Jiangxi Province, goes largely unmentioned in the annals of modern Chinese history. Yet records from the Public Security Bureau archive hold a treasure trove of data on the every day interactions between locals and the law. Drawing on these largely overlooked resources, Tiger, Tyrant, Bandit, Businessman follows four criminal cases that together uniquely illuminate the dawning years of the People's Republic. Using a unique casefile approach, Brian DeMare recounts stories of a Confucian scholar who found himself allied with bandits and secret society members; a farmer who murdered a cadre; an evil tyrant who exploited religious traditions to avoid prosecution; and a merchant accused of a crime he did not commit. Each case is a tremendous tale, complete with memorable characters, plot twists, and drama. And while all depict the enemies of New China, each also reveals details of village life during this most pivotal moment of recent Chinese history. Together, the narratives bring rural regime change to life, illustrating how the Chinese Communist Party cemented its authority through mass political campaigns, careful legal investigations, and sheer patience. Balancing storytelling with historical inquiry, this book is at once a grassroots view of rural China's legal system and its application to apparent counterrevolutionaries, and a lesson in archival research itself.

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Stanford University Press

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1503632512

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9781503632516

Mao's Cultural Army

By: Brian James DeMare

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Mao's Cultural Army

By: Brian James DeMare

This study explores the role of drama troupes that were tasked with roaming the countryside in support of Mao's communist revolution in China. Caught between the party and their audiences, the book illustrates how drama troupes, through performance, attempted to resist the ever growing reach of the People's Republic of China state.

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Cambridge University Press

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1107076323

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Tiger, Tyrant, Bandit, Businessman

Echoes of Counterrevolution from New China

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Echoes of Counterrevolution from New China

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Using rare archival sources, this book weaves together four stories of criminal counterrevolution to examine the arrival of Communist power in the Chinese countryside.

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1503632369

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Mao's Cultural Army

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Mao's Cultural Army

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Tiger, Tyrant, Bandit, Businessman

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