Cultural Revolution and Overacting: Dynamics between Politics and Performance

This postmodern study of the Chinese Cultural Revolution examines the inner mechanism of the mass movement.Utilizing methodologies of cultural anthropology, linguistics, acting theory, and literary criticism, it reveals how people's performances of their everyday lives functioned as mechanisms of social control.

• | Author: Tuo Wang
• | Publisher: Lexington Books
• | Publication Date: Sep 24, 2014
• | Number of Pages: 184 pages
• | Binding: Hardback or Cased Book
• | ISBN-10: 0739192906
• | ISBN-13: 9780739192900