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War and Popular Culture: Resistance in Modern China, 1937–1945

By Chang-tai Hung

Book information

Publisher
University of California Press
Year
2020
ISBN
9780520354869
DOI
10.1525/9780520354869
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
116 MB (121892557 bytes)
Edition
Reprint 2020
Pages
450\448
Library
degruyter.com
Time added
2023-08-21 18:04:59

Description

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.

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