Get 20M+ Full-Text Papers For Less Than $1.50/day. Start a 14-Day Trial for You or Your Team.

Learn More →

3. China's Persecuted Playwrights: The Theatre in Communist China's Current Cultural Revolution

3. China's Persecuted Playwrights: The Theatre in Communist China's Current Cultural Revolution 3. China's Persecuted Playwrights: The Theatre in CODlDlunist China's Current Cultural Revolution WALTER J. & RUTH I. MESERVE Indiana University, Bloomington, U.S.A. All our literature and art are for the masses of the people, and in the first place for the workers, peasants and soldiers; ... Mao Tse-tung Selected Works, III, 84 Security has never been associated with the playwright's career, but in Communist China the game is serious. Depending upon his ideological ability in dramatizing the changing edicts of Mao Tse-tung, the playwright may be a hero one year and a traitor the next. He never knows. Evidence shows, however, that the best artists are the most frequent victims of the Party whose practiced ironies are indeed dramatic. In 1956, Tien Han, one ofChina's most prolific playwrights, extolled the "enviable future" of drama in China and spoke ofthe "rewarding work" ahead for all theatrical people: "A great cultural upsurge is beginning. The modern theatre has a brilliant part to play in it."! Today, like many ofhis contemporaries, he has been purged as a " bourgeois" traitor and a "modern revisionist" of art and literature - a victim of China's current Cultural Revolution. During the last of the http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of Asian and African Studies (in 2002 continued as African and Asian Studies) Brill

3. China's Persecuted Playwrights: The Theatre in Communist China's Current Cultural Revolution

Download PDF
7 pages

Loading next page...
 
/lp/brill/3-china-s-persecuted-playwrights-the-theatre-in-communist-china-s-X8N4TQL0u9

References

References for this paper are not available at this time. We will be adding them shortly, thank you for your patience.

Publisher
Brill
Copyright
© Copyright 1970 by Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
ISSN
0021-9096
eISSN
1568-5217
DOI
10.1163/15685217-90007077
Publisher site
See Article on Publisher Site

Abstract

3. China's Persecuted Playwrights: The Theatre in CODlDlunist China's Current Cultural Revolution WALTER J. & RUTH I. MESERVE Indiana University, Bloomington, U.S.A. All our literature and art are for the masses of the people, and in the first place for the workers, peasants and soldiers; ... Mao Tse-tung Selected Works, III, 84 Security has never been associated with the playwright's career, but in Communist China the game is serious. Depending upon his ideological ability in dramatizing the changing edicts of Mao Tse-tung, the playwright may be a hero one year and a traitor the next. He never knows. Evidence shows, however, that the best artists are the most frequent victims of the Party whose practiced ironies are indeed dramatic. In 1956, Tien Han, one ofChina's most prolific playwrights, extolled the "enviable future" of drama in China and spoke ofthe "rewarding work" ahead for all theatrical people: "A great cultural upsurge is beginning. The modern theatre has a brilliant part to play in it."! Today, like many ofhis contemporaries, he has been purged as a " bourgeois" traitor and a "modern revisionist" of art and literature - a victim of China's current Cultural Revolution. During the last of the

Journal

Journal of Asian and African Studies (in 2002 continued as African and Asian Studies) – Brill

Published: Jan 1, 1970

There are no references for this article.