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