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Harvard contemporary China series ; 18

Introduction: Discerning red legacies in China / Jie Li

Part I. Red foundations: Making a revolutionary monument: The site of the first National Congress of the Chinese Communist party / Denise Ho

Building big, with no regret: from Beijing's "ten great buildings" in the 1950s to China's mega-projects today / Zhu Tao

Part II. Red art: Ambiguities of address: Cultural revolution posters and their post-Mao appeal / Harriet Evans

Socialist visual experience as cultural identity: On Wang Guangyi and contemporary art / Xiaobing Tang

Part III. Red classics: Performing the "Red classics": from the East is Red to the Road to Revival / Xiaomei Chen

Red legacy in fiction / David Der-wei Wang

Post-socialist realism in Chinese cinema / Jason McGrath

Part IV. Red bodies: Mao's two bodies: On the curious (political) art of impersonating the great helmsman / Haiyan Lee

"Human wave tactics": Zhang Yimou, cinematic ritual, and the problems of crowds / Andy Rodekohr

Time out of joint: Commemoration and commodification of socialism in Yan Lianke's Lenin's Kisses / Carlos Rojas

Part V. Red shadows: Museums and memorials of the Mao era: A survey and notes for future curators / Jie Li

Red allure and the crimson blindfold / Geremie R. Barme.

Politics and culture > China.

Decommunization > China.

Art > Political aspects > China.

China > Civilization > 1949-