Cultural Revolution Manuscripts: Unofficial Entertainment Fiction from 1970s China

Acknowledgments
Note on References to Primary Sources
Praise for Cultural Revolution Manuscripts
Contents
List of Figures
1 Introduction
	Context: Reading During the Cultural Revolution
	Texts and Practices: Shouchaoben Fiction as a Genre and the Concept of Secondary Authorship
	The Post-Cultural Revolutionary Afterlives of Entertainment Shouchaoben: Publication, Adaptation and State of Research
	Primary Sources
	Aims and Structure of This Book
	References
2 The Writing and Rewriting of an Exemplary Shouchaoben: Zhang Yang’s The Second Handshake During the Cultural Revolution
	Text: Plot and Themes
	Context: Zhang Yang’s Biography and His (Re)Writing of the Story
	Writing and Rewriting Shouchaoben Fiction
	Circulating Shouchaoben Fiction
	Shouchaoben Fiction Rewritten: Continuity and Change
	The Second Handshake Within the Shouchaoben Cosmos
	References
3 Texts on Travel: Stability Across Variation and Secondary Authorship in Espionage Shouchaoben Fiction
	Context: Crime and Espionage During China’s Long 1970s
		The Plum Blossom Case
		A Strand of Golden Hair
		Three Journeys to Jiangnan
	Texts’ Journeys, Authorships and Readerships
	References
4 Shouchaoben as Literary Avant-Garde: Open Love Letters and Waves
	Contents and Context of Liu Qingfeng’s Open Love Letters
	Contents and Context of Bei Dao’s Waves
	Post-Maoist Literature: Educated Youth Literature, Scar Literature and Obscure Poetry
	Open Love Letters and Waves as Avant-Garde Literature
		Contents: Revisiting the Past, Criticism of the Present
		Language and Style: Between Clarity and Obscurity
	Polyphony in Form: New and Multiple Voices
	Aesthetic Innovation and Avant-Garde and Their Institutional Context
	References
5 Ways of Reading: Cultural Revolution Reading Acts
	Distant Reading: What Matters? Popular Reading Materials
	Close Reading: How Does It Matter, and Why?
	Writing and Copying as Reading? Hand-Copying Practices
	Blind Spots—What Is Missing?
	Reading Materials Beyond Autobiographical Sources
	Appendix to Chapter 5
	References
6 World Literature and Intertextuality: Reading Acts in Shouchaoben Fiction
	Reading Practices in Entertainment Shouchaoben
	Reading Practices in Zhang Yang’s The Second Handshake
	Shouchaoben and World Literature: Reading Practices in Avant-Garde Shouchaoben
	Toward the World?
	References
7 From Underground into the Mainstream: Shouchaoben Fiction on the Commercial Book Market
	Context: Official Publications of Cultural Revolution Shouchaoben
	Text: From Manuscript to Book
	Shouchao Practices in the New Era: Adaptation and Authorship
	References
8 Conclusion: Shouchaoben Fiction as Texts in Motion
	References
Bibliography
Index