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Art and Politics in China, 1949-1984 (review)

Art and Politics in China, 1949-1984 (review) Maria Galikowski. Art and Politics in China 1949­1984. Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, 1998. 289 pp. Paperback HK $230.00, ISBN 962­ 201­469­9. This book chooses the most devastating period in twentieth-century Chinese cultural history for a critical examination of the arts and its entanglement with politics in China from 1948 to 1984. The complexity of involving this key element of Chinese civilization with political ideology was managed with sophistication from one political movement to the next and intimately intertwined with the larger cultural and literary tradition. From 1949 to 1979, the intensity with which artists and other intellectuals were brought into line as an effective means of disseminating political propaganda by the Communist Party, and the extent to which Communist authority was able to reach almost every social class and geographical location, turned culture and the arts in China into a permanent political battleground. For Westerners interested in Chinese affairs, a book that provides an indepth survey of this subject in English is of great value. The author provides a brief historical background starting with the May Fourth Movement, and this is followed by a discussion of how Marxism, as it was interpreted by Russian cultural theorists http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png China Review International University of Hawai'I Press

Art and Politics in China, 1949-1984 (review)

China Review International , Volume 6 (2) – Sep 1, 1999

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Maria Galikowski. Art and Politics in China 1949­1984. Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, 1998. 289 pp. Paperback HK $230.00, ISBN 962­ 201­469­9. This book chooses the most devastating period in twentieth-century Chinese cultural history for a critical examination of the arts and its entanglement with politics in China from 1948 to 1984. The complexity of involving this key element of Chinese civilization with political ideology was managed with sophistication from one political movement to the next and intimately intertwined with the larger cultural and literary tradition. From 1949 to 1979, the intensity with which artists and other intellectuals were brought into line as an effective means of disseminating political propaganda by the Communist Party, and the extent to which Communist authority was able to reach almost every social class and geographical location, turned culture and the arts in China into a permanent political battleground. For Westerners interested in Chinese affairs, a book that provides an indepth survey of this subject in English is of great value. The author provides a brief historical background starting with the May Fourth Movement, and this is followed by a discussion of how Marxism, as it was interpreted by Russian cultural theorists

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China Review InternationalUniversity of Hawai'I Press

Published: Sep 1, 1999

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