Chapter 1 Cultural Reform As an Afterthought Chapter 2 The Waning Authority of the Chinese State as Patron of the Arts Chapter 3 Normalizing Nudity Chapter 4 The Chinese Censorship Game: New Rules for the Prevention of Art Chapter 5 Artists as Professionals Chapter 6 The Price of Beauty Chapter 7 The Hands That Feed Them
Richard Curt Kraus is director of the Robert D. Clark Honors College and professor of political science at the University of Oregon.
A cogent overview of the arts in general and the transmogrification
of culture and its place in the Chinese polity today. . . . This
accessible and solid study of the Chinese arts scene is a valuable
piece of work that will find a wide readership both in academe and
among interested groups—media, business, and government—dealing
with China. . . . An essential text for students of post–1949 and
post–1976 Chinese cultural, social, and political history.
*Geremie Barmé, The Australian National University*
Richard Kraus's gracefully written, refreshingly irreverent
examination of the impact of the market on China's erstwhile system
of state patronage of the arts explicitly rejects the conventional
wisdom that extensive economic reform has not been accompanied by
substantial political change. Kraus has given us one of those rare
scholarly books students will actually enjoy reading.
*Stanley Rosen, University of Southern California*
An excellent resource in graduate and postgraduate teaching.
*School Of Oriental and Asian Studies*
The book is valuable for both researchers and students because its
in-depth research and creative analysis provide an engaging
understanding of the often murky workings of the Chinese
party-state as it engages in economic reform. . . . Students of
Chinese culture, society and politics will learn much from The
Party and the Arty, as will a broader readership who is interested
in the culture-politics dynamic and institutional reform.
*China Quarterly*
This is a book that must be read by anyone who wants to know more
about the dynamics of present-day artistic life in China.
*China Review International, (Spring 2005)*
Readers of Richard Kraus's previous two books, Pianos and Politics
in China: Middle Class Ambitions and the Struggle over Western
Music (1989) and Brushes with Power: Modern Politics and the
Chinese Art of Calligraphy (1991), know that he is one of the few
Western scholars able to comment knowledgeably on the interaction
between politics and the arts in contemporary China. Well informed
about the arts generally, his books combined dedicated research
with lively prose. This latest book similarly will not disappoint.
One especially attractive feature is its coverage of the visual and
perfrming arts as well as fiction and poetry.
*The China Journal*
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