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Table of contents :
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Poetic Interiorities: From Civilization to Nation
2. Poetry Off The Page: Sound Aesthetics in Print
3. Inventing Recitation: Poetry and the Idea of the Sounding Voice During the War of Resistance
4. Wartime Recitals and the Consolidation of a Genre
5. Zhu Ziqing and Situational Poetics: Sounding Out an Alternative
6. Calculated Passions: The Lyric and the Theatric in Mao-Era Poetry Recitation
7. From Yundong to Huodong: The Value of Poetry Recitation in Postsocialist China
Notes
Glossary
Works Cited
Index
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