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- Gilded Voices: Economics, Politics, and Storytelling in the Yangzi Delta Since 1949
Gilded Voices: Economics, Politics, and Storytelling in the Yangzi Delta Since 1949
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In "Gilded Voices: Economics, Politics, and Storytelling in the Yangzi Delta since 1949, " Qiliang He pieces together published, archival, and oral history sources to explore the role of the cultural market in mediating between the state and artists in the PRC era. By focusing on "pingtan, " a storytelling art using the Suzhou dialect, the book documents both the state s efforts to police artists and their repertoire and storytellers collaboration with, as well as resistance to, state supervision and intervention. The book thereby challenges long-held scholarly assumptions about the Chinese Communist Party s success in politicizing popular culture, patronizing artists, abolishing the cultural market, and enforcing rigid censorship in Mao s times.
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