Examining the production of 'people's literature' in China, this study provides a new interpretive framework with which to understand socialist literature and presents a sympathetic understanding of culture from a period in China's history in which people's lives were greatly and obviously affected by political events.

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Stanley Aronowitz, Graduate Center of the City University of New York, USA M. Lane Bruner, Georgia State University, USA Kevin Bruyneel, Babson College, USA Jon Dietrick, Babson College, USA Emily M. Drew, Willamette University, USA Henry A. Giroux, McMaster University, Canada Robin Truth Goodman, Florida State University, USA Dick Howard, Stony Brook University, USA Ted Kafala, College of Mount Saint Vincent, USA Kristin Lawler, College of Mount Saint Vincent, USA Pepi Leistyna, University of Massachusetts, Boston, USA Lisa Nel, independent scholar Ann Neumann, Drew University, USA Ravi K. Perry, Mississippi State University, USA Yasmiyn Irizarry, Mississippi State University, USA Timothy J. Fair, Mississippi State University, USA Raúl Rubio, John Jay College of the City University of New York, USA Thomas Thorp, Saint Xavier University, USA bell hooks, independent scholar

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Introduction 1. People's Literature and the Construction of a New Chinese Literary Tradition 2. Creativity and Containment in the Transformations of Li Shuangshuang 3. The Heart of the Party: Gender and Communist Party Ideals in Tracks in the Snowy Forest 4. Educational Laughter: Urban Cinema and Community Formation 5. Conclusion: More, Better, Faster, More Economically: The Ming Tombs Reservor and a Different Path for Maoist Culture