Listening to China’s Cultural Revolution: Music, Politics, and Cultural Continuities (Chinese Literature and Culture in the World)

## Edited by Ban Wang As China is becoming an important player on the world stage, Chinese literature is poised to change and reshape the overlapping, shared cultural landscapes in the world. This series publishes books that reconsider Chinese literature, culture, criticism, and aesthetics in national and international contexts and render China's classical heritage and modern accomplishments as a significant part of world culture. By promoting works that cut across the divide between modernity and tradition, this series will aim to challenge the inequality and unevenness of the current world system and aspire to a prospect of the global cultural community. Imbued with a desire for mutual relevance . Front Matter....Pages i-ix Introduction....Pages 1-8 Front Matter....Pages 9-9 A Diachronic Study of Jingju Yangbanxi Model Peking Opera Music....Pages 11-35 From Confucianist Meditative Tool to Maoist Revolutionary Weapon: The Seven-Stringed Zither (Qin) in the Cultural Revolution....Pages 37-64 Breaking Bad: Sabotaging the Production of the Hero in the Amateur Performance of Yangbanxi....Pages 65-83 Third World Internationalism: Films and Operas in the Chinese Cultural Revolution....Pages 85-106 Singing in the Dark: Film and Cultural Revolution Musical Culture....Pages 107-126 Front Matter....Pages 127-127 Dialects as Untamable: How to Revolutionize Cantonese Opera?....Pages 129-146 The West is Red: Uyghur Adaptation of The Legend of the Red Lantern (Qizil Chiragh) during China’s Cultural Revolution....Pages 147-165 The Dragon River Reaches the Borders: The Rehabilitation of Ethnic Music in a Model Opera....Pages 167-186 Front Matter....Pages 187-187 Musical-Dramatic Experimentation in the Yangbanxi: A Case for Precedence in The Great Wall....Pages 189-212 Sonic Imaginary after the Cultural Revolution....Pages 213-238 Just Beat It! Popular Legacies of Cultural Revolution Music....Pages 239-268 Back Matter....Pages 269-280 The first of its kind in English to explore the musical cultural of China's Cultural Revolution, Listening to China's Cultural Revolution discusses the history, politics, and aesthetics of a full range of music and performances during this rich yet complicated time in Chinese history. Together, the chapters, grouped under the headings "Temporality," "Geography," and "Lineage and Legacies," demonstrate how the era's soundscape was experienced by ordinary people, artists, as well as political leaders, and how the sensory was translated into political actions or even met with indifference. Finally, the book traces the impact of this musical and operatic culture back to its earlier roots through present-day reverberations still felt and heard today. -- Back cover Bringing together the most recent research on the Cultural Revolution in China, musicologists, historians, literary scholars, and others discuss the music and its political implications. Combined, these chapters, paint a vibrant picture of the long-lasting impact that the musical revolution had on ordinary citizens, as well as political leaders.