Writing to the Rhythm of Labor - Cultural Politics of the Chinese Revolution, 19421976

Benjamin Kindler examines how writing transformed the Chinese Revolution even as the revolution remade what it meant to write.

List of contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Learning to Write, Learning to Labor: The Yan’an Way and the Birth of the Culture Worker
2. Lazy Peasants, Productive Proletarians: The Developmental Logic of Cultural Labor and Uneven Development
3. Time for Communism: Mass Writing, Revolutionary Form, and “Bourgeois Right”
4. Reproducing Revolution: Cultural Reconstruction and the Aesthetics of Communist Heroism
5. In and Out of Petersburg: Soul and Writing Under Late Maoism
Thermidor (By Way of Conclusion)
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index

About the author

Benjamin Kindler is an assistant professor in the Department of Cultural Studies at Lingnan University, Hong Kong.

Summary

Benjamin Kindler examines how writing transformed the Chinese Revolution even as the revolution remade what it meant to write.

Product details

• Authors: Benjamin Kindler
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 22.04.2025, delayed
• EAN: 9780231219327
• ISBN: 978-0-231-21932-7
• No. of pages: 296
• Subjects: Guides > Self-help, everyday life > Family; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; China, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, LITERARY CRITICISM / Asian / Chinese, Far-left political ideologies and movements, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Socialism & left-of-centre democratic ideologies, Left-of-centre democratic ideologies, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Marxism & Communism