1st Edition

China's Soviet Dream Propaganda, Culture, and Popular Imagination

By Yan Li Copyright 2018
220 Pages 19 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

220 Pages 19 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

220 Pages 19 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book examines the introduction of Soviet socialist culture in the People’s Republic of China, with a focus on the period of Sino-Soviet friendship in the 1950s. The vast state initiative to transplant Soviet culture into Chinese soil has conventionally been dismissed as a tool of propaganda and political indoctrination. However, this book demonstrates that this transnational engagement not... Read more

Introduction

Part I: The Avowed Internationalism

Chapter 1: The Propaganda of Friendship

Chapter 2: One World, One Language?

Part II: The New Outlook

Chapter 3: Urban Landscapes and Socialist Architecture

Chapter 4: New Clothes and Socialist Fashion

Part III: The Public and the Private

Chapter 5: Soviet Literature in 1950s China

Chapter 6: Soviet Literature in China’s Cultural Revolution

Afterword

Biography

Yan Li is Assistant Professor of History at Oakland University, USA. She received her Ph.D. in World History from Northeastern University, with a concentration in Modern China. Her doctoral thesis examined China's cultural interactions with the Soviet Union and the impact of Soviet culture on Maoist China. She is interested in cultural history, women and gender studies, and cinema studies related to the period of modern China. She teaches introductory courses on Chinese history and culture, as well as upper-division courses on Chinese women, the Qing Dynasty, Chinese revolutions, and contemporary China.