Table of Contents

Introduction: A Culture in the Red 1: The Chinese Velvet Prison 2: An Iron Fist in a Velvet Glove 3: Traveling Heavy 4: The Apotheosis of the Liumang 5: The Graying of Chinese Culture 6: Consuming t-shirts in Beijing 7: Packaged Dissent 8: Artful Marketing 9: ccptm & Adcult prc 10: To Screw Foreigners Is Patriotic 11: Kowtowing to the Vulgar 12: Totalitarian Nostalgia Postscript: Springtime in Beijing Appendix: Screw You, Too Chinese Glossary Index

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A leading observer of Chinese literature, society, and politics lifts the veil on the culture wars that have raged between officials and dissidents in the period before and after the June 4, 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre.

About the Author

Geremie R.Barme is a senior research fellow at the Institute of Advanced Studies at the Australian National University. He is the author of Shades of Mao: The Posthumous Career of a Great Leader and the editor of several books, including (with Linda Jaivin) New Ghosts. Old Dreams: Chinese Rebel Voices and (with John Minford) Seeds of Fire: Chinese Voices of Conscience. He has also translated two volumes of Chinese essays and was a coauthor of and advisor for the documentary film The Gate of Heavenly Peace.

Reviews

Barme knows China well [and] has occasionally feuded with Chinese cultural icons... Here, he surveys the cultural warfare since the reform era began in 1978 and emphasizes the way a rich counterculture has flowered despite the authorities'deep misgivings and periodic purges. -- Nicholas D. Kristof New York Times Book Review A factual look at a cultural revolution that is happening without artist or government realizing it. -- Joe Collins Booklist