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Drawing on interviews with the artists and their families and on materials collected during her visits to China, Shelley Drake Hawks examines their painting styles, political outlooks, and life experiences.

Table of Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

Chronology of Major Events

Introduction: Painting by Candlelight in Mao’s China

Part One | Cartoonists

1. Ding Cong’s True Story of the Outcast Ah Q

2. Feng Zikai Protests the Giant Hedge Cutters

Part Two | Academy Painters and a President

3. Li Keran’s Luminous Path through Mountains

4. Li Kuchan’s Eagle Gazes Far

5. Huang Yongyu’s Eye Talk

6. Pan Tianshou’s Nocturne for a Plum Tree

Part Three | Communist Idealist Shi Lu

7. Inside the Secret Notebook

8. At Cliff ’s Edge

9. From Trauma to Recovery

Conclusion

Appendix: Poems from Shi Lu’s Secret Notebook, ca. 1973–75

Notes

Glossary

Bibliography

Index

About the Author

Shelley Drake Hawks teaches art history and world history at Middlesex Community College in Massachusetts.