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1 online resource (xi, 353 pages) : illustrations |
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Studies of the Harriman Institute of Columbia University
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Studies of the Harriman Institute.
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: China and early Soviet culture -- Sight, sound, and similarity: Soviet writers travel to China -- Translating China onstage: Roar, China! and The red poppy -- Through an internationalist lens: China in early Soviet cinema -- Confessions and collaborations: authority, agency, agency and factographic internationalism in Den Shi-khua -- Epilogue: International literature, national form, and missed connections. |
| Summary |
"While the Third Communist International (Comintern) supported nationalist revolution in China, Soviet writers and film-makers traveled to China, met with Chinese students in Moscow, and sought to reimagine China for a Soviet audience as the next site of world revolution. Their artistic experiments constituted a search for an "internationalist aesthetics": a mode of representation that could overcome the exoticism of imperialist culture and produce transnational sympathies between populations previously considered culturally distant. Contributing to a recent cultural turn in the study of socialist internationalism, Internationalist Aesthetics positions China in the 1920s as the central space for Soviet culture's attempt to imagine how internationalism was supposed to look and feel. Tyerman traces the reimagining of China through the multiple genres and media of the early Soviet cultural system, including reportage, film, theater, and biography. This account offers new insight into the transnational dynamics that shaped Soviet culture and socialist aesthetics, and illuminates a crucial chapter in Sino-Russian relations, one of the most significant international relationships of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Local Note |
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Communism and culture -- Soviet Union -- History.
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Communist aesthetics.
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Mass media and culture -- Soviet Union -- History.
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Soviet Union -- Foreign relations -- China.
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China -- Foreign relations -- Soviet Union.
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China -- In mass media.
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China -- Foreign public opinion, Soviet Union.
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Soviet Union -- Foreign public opinion, Chinese.
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HISTORY / Asia / China |
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Communism and culture |
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Communist aesthetics |
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Diplomatic relations |
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Mass media |
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Mass media and culture |
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Public opinion, Chinese |
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China |
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Soviet Union |
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History
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Tyerman, Edward. Internationalist aesthetics New York : Columbia University Press, [2021] 9780231199186 (DLC) 2021015966 |
| ISBN |
9780231552981 electronic book |
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023155298X electronic book |
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9780231199186 hardcover |
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9780231199193 paperback |
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