9780520072855-0520072855-Brushes with Power: Modern Politics and the Chinese Art of Calligraphy

Brushes with Power: Modern Politics and the Chinese Art of Calligraphy

ISBN-13: 9780520072855
ISBN-10: 0520072855
Edition: First Edition
Author: Richard Curt Kraus
Publication date: 1991
Publisher: University of California Press
Format: Hardcover 220 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780520072855
ISBN-10: 0520072855
Edition: First Edition
Author: Richard Curt Kraus
Publication date: 1991
Publisher: University of California Press
Format: Hardcover 220 pages

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Brushes with Power: Modern Politics and the Chinese Art of Calligraphy (ISBN-13: 9780520072855 and ISBN-10: 0520072855), written by authors Richard Curt Kraus, was published by University of California Press in 1991. With an overall rating of 4.3 stars, it's a notable title among other books. You can easily purchase or rent Brushes with Power: Modern Politics and the Chinese Art of Calligraphy (Hardcover) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $2.09.

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Chinese calligraphy has traditionally been an emblem of the ruling class and its authority. After a century of mass revolution, what is the fate of this elite art? Richard Kraus explores the relationship beween politics and the art of writing in China today to explicate the complex relationship between tradition and modernity in Chinese culture. His study draws upon a wide range of sources, from political documents, memoirs, and interviews with Chinese intellectuals to art exhibitions and television melodramas.

Mao Zedong and other Communist leaders gave calligraphy a revolutionary role, believing that their beloved art reflected the luster of authoritative words and deeds. Calligraphy was joined with new propagandistic mass media to become less a private art and more a public performance. It provided politically engaged citizens with subtle cues to changing power relationships in the People's Republic.

Claiming neither that the Communists obliterated traditional culture nor that revolution failed to relieve the burden of China's past, this study subtly examines the changing uses of tradition in a modernizing society.

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