DeMare, Brian. Mao’s cultural army : drama troupes in China’s rural revolution. Cambridge : Cambridge university press, 2015. 272 p. (Coll. “Cambridge studies in the history of the People’s Republic of China”). ISBN : 978-1-1070-7632-7
Charting their training, travels, and performances, this innovative study explores the role of the artists that roamed the Chinese countryside in support of Mao’s communist revolution. DeMare traces the development of Mao’s ‘cultural army’ from its genesis in Red Army propaganda teams to its full development as a largely civilian force composed of amateur and professional drama troupes in the early years of the PRC. Drawing from memoirs, artistic handbooks, and rare archival sources, Mao’s Cultural Army uncovers the arduous and complex process of creating revolutionary dramas that would appeal to China’s all-important rural audiences. The Communists strived for a disciplined cultural army to promote party policies, but audiences often shunned modern and didactic shows, and instead clamoured for traditional works. DeMare illustrates how drama troupes, caught between the party and their audiences, did their best to resist the ever growing reach of the PRC state.
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Centre d'études sur la Chine moderne et contemporaine, EHESS, Paris, France
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