Contents
Introduction: Chinese Socialist Theater: Between Revolution and Reform | Tarryn Li-Min Chun
1. Neither Western Opera, Nor Old Chinese Theater: The Modernist “Integrated Art-Form” and the Origins of the Maoist “New Music-Drama” | Max L . Bohnenkamp
2. The Campaign against Scenario Plays in China in the 1950s | Siyuan Liu
3. Chasing Spirits in the Script: The Ambivalent Politics of Early Socialist Theatrical Adaptation | Anne Rebull
4. Navigating Bureaucratic “Gusts of Wind”: Reform and The Theater World, 1949–1965 | Maggie Greene
5. The Experimental and the Popular in Chinese Socialist Theater of the 1950s | Liang Luo
6. Aesthetic Politics at Home and Abroad: Dagger Society and the Development of Maoist Revolutionary Dance Drama | Emily Wilcox
7. Drama from Beijing to Long Bow: Reforming Shanxi Stages in Socialist China | Brian DeMare
8. Staging World Revolution: Crafting Internationalism in the Chinese Dramatic Arts, 1962–1968 | Christopher Tang
9. Sent-Down Plays: Yangbanxi Stagecraft, Practical Aesthetics, and Popularization during the Cultural Revolution | Tarryn Li-Min Chun
Epilogue: A Personal Reflection | Xiaomei Chen
Contributors
Index