Collecting the Revolution is an exploration of British engagements with Chinese Cultural Revolution material culture from 1966 to the present. It examines the ways in which the Cultural Revolution and Chinese Communism more broadly was understood, mediated, and represented through its art, propaganda, and material culture.
Collecting the Revolution is an exploration of British engagements with Chinese Cultural Revolution material culture from 1966 to the present. It examines the ways in which the Cultural Revolution and Chinese Communism more broadly was understood, mediated, and represented through its art, propaganda, and material culture.
Emily Williams is a cultural historian of modern China with an interest in modern Chinese visuality, the history of collecting, as well as the cross-cultural movement of Chinese communist objects, particularly to Britain. She is a Lecturer in Chinese Society in Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University in Suzhou China.
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction Part One - Shaping Impressions: Britain and Cultural Revolution Culture 1. Visualising the Cultural Revolution in British popular culture 2. Idealising the Cultural Revolution: Huxian peasant paintings and the British art world 3. Experiencing China through Material Culture: the British in China and their objects Part Two - Transnational Collecting and Exhibiting 1. Individual collections: the global journeys of Cultural Revolution objects 2. Public collections: collection and display of Cultural Revolution objects in British public institutions Conclusion: Legacies of Engagements with Cultural Revolution Objects
Introduction Part One - Shaping Impressions: Britain and Cultural Revolution Culture 1. Visualising the Cultural Revolution in British popular culture 2. Idealising the Cultural Revolution: Huxian peasant paintings and the British art world 3. Experiencing China through Material Culture: the British in China and their objects Part Two - Transnational Collecting and Exhibiting 1. Individual collections: the global journeys of Cultural Revolution objects 2. Public collections: collection and display of Cultural Revolution objects in British public institutions Conclusion: Legacies of Engagements with Cultural Revolution Objects
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