Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Resurrecting Ghosts
One. Demons and Marvels: Early Drama Reform in the PRC
Two. Wandering West Lake: Ma Jianling, Ghost Opera, and Discourses of Mythology and Superstition
Three. Old Trees Blooming: Li Huiniang, Ghost Literature, and the Early 1960s
Four. Resisting Spirits: The Ghost Play Debates of 1963
Five. Ox Ghost–Snake Spirits and Poisonous Weeds: The Origins of the Cultural Revolution
Six. "Is It Not Fate?": Li Huiniang and the Post-Mao Milieu
Coda: Haunted by Beautiful Ghosts
Glossary
Notes
Bibliography
Index