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War and Popular Culture - by Chang-Tai Hung (Hardcover)
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- This is the first comprehensive study of popular culture in twentieth-century China, and of its political impact during the Sino-Japanese War of 1937-1945 (known in China as "The War of Resistance against Japan").
- About the Author: Chang-tai Hung is Jane and Raphael Bernstein Professor of Asian Studies at Carleton College, and the author of Going to the People: Chinese Intellectuals and Folk Literature, 1918-1937 (1985).
- 450 Pages
- History, Asia
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This is the first comprehensive study of popular culture in twentieth-century China, and of its political impact during the Sino-Japanese War of 1937-1945 (known in China as "The War of Resistance against Japan"). Chang-tai Hung shows in compelling detail how Chinese resisters used a variety of popular cultural forms-especially dramas, cartoons, and newspapers-to reach out to the rural audience and galvanize support for the war cause. While the Nationalists used popular culture as a patriotic tool, the Communists refashioned it into a socialist propaganda instrument, creating lively symbols of peasant heroes and joyful images of village life under their rule. In the end, Hung argues, the Communists' use of popular culture contributed to their victory in revolution.About the Author
Chang-tai Hung is Jane and Raphael Bernstein Professor of Asian Studies at Carleton College, and the author of Going to the People: Chinese Intellectuals and Folk Literature, 1918-1937 (1985).Dimensions (Overall): 9.0 Inches (H) x 6.0 Inches (W) x 1.13 Inches (D)
Weight: 1.79 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 450
Genre: History
Sub-Genre: Asia
Publisher: University of California Press
Theme: General
Format: Hardcover
Author: Chang-Tai Hung
Language: English
Street Date: July 7, 1994
TCIN: 94312790
UPC: 9780520082366
Item Number (DPCI): 247-13-1441
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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