Voices in Revolution: Poetry and the Auditory Imagination in Modern China 9780824837532

China’s century of revolutionary change has been heard as much as seen, and nowhere is this more evident than in an audi

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Voices in Revolution: Poetry and the Auditory Imagination in Modern China
 9780824837532

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
About the Author

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