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Informationen zum Autor Paul Clark (born 1949) is Professor of Chinese at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. He pioneered the study of Chinese films with his Chinese Cinema: Culture and Politics since 1949 (Cambridge University Press, 1987) and most recently updated this work with Reinventing China: A Generation and Its Films (2005), on Chinese cinema's New Wave since the 1980s. He received his PhD from Harvard University and was a researcher at the East-West Center in Honolulu, Hawai'i. This present book draws on his experience as an exchange student in Beijing from 1974 to 1976, the last two years of the Cultural Revolution. Klappentext Clark analyzes the Cultural Revolution through the conflict between innovation and a top-down enforcement of modernity. Zusammenfassung Examining a wide range of cultural forms! this book argues that innovation! participation in cultural production! and a vigorous promotion of the modern were all typical of the Cultural Revolution! which was characterized by the conflict of innovation with the effort by political leaders to enforce a top-down modernity. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. Modelling a new culture; 2. Spreading the new models; 3. Fixing culture on film; 4. Elaborating culture: dance, music, stage, and fine arts; 5. Writing wrongs: public and private fictions and resistance; 6. Conclusion: forcing modernity.
