General Information

Author/Creator

Tyerman, Edward, author.

Language

English.

Published

New York : Columbia University Press, 2021.

Physical Description

353 p. : ill ; 23 cm.

Contents/Summary

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"--

Subjects

Subject

Communism and culture > Soviet Union > History.

Communist aesthetics.

Mass media and culture > Soviet Union > History.

Soviet Union > Foreign relations > China.

China > Foreign relations > Soviet Union.

China > In mass media.

China > Foreign public opinion, Soviet Union.

Soviet Union > Foreign public opinion, Chinese.

Bibliographic Information

Responsibility

Edward Tyerman.

Content

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.

ISBN

9780231552981

Holdings

Item Type	Current Location	Collection	Call Number	Volume Info	Shelving Location	Public Note
Book	OSA Archivum Library	Reference collection	303.48/24705109042 TYE		Reference	-

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