{"product_id":"writing-to-the-rhythm-of-labor-cultural-politics-of-the-chinese-revolution-1942-1976-paperback","title":"Writing to the Rhythm of Labor: Cultural Politics of the Chinese Revolution, 1942-1976 - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eBenjamin Kindler\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat does it mean to write in a socialist revolution? What defines labor in a communist society? In revolutionary China, writers were regularly dispatched to the countryside or factories with the expectation that, through immersion in the life of workers and peasants, they would be remade as \"culture workers\" whose writing could serve the communist project. Their cultural labor would not merely reflect or represent the process of building socialism--it would actively participate in it by excavating the contradictions and challenges of the ongoing reorganization of social relations. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBenjamin Kindler examines how writing transformed the Chinese Revolution even as the revolution remade what it meant to write. He argues that the revolution sought in unparalleled ways to overcome the basic division between those who write and those who work. This book combines close readings of a wide range of texts--from the works of established figures to the writings of amateur workers drawn from the factory floor--with analysis of Chinese socialist political economy. Far from being drab instances of state propaganda, these texts and cultural experiments were lively and inventive attempts to determine what a different, more equal society might look like. Offering new ways to understand cultural production as a material, embodied process, this book reconsiders the role of art and literature in radical politics.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eBenjamin Kindler is an assistant professor in the Department of Cultural Studies at Lingnan University, Hong Kong.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 296\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.67 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 20, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44245984706611,"sku":"9780231219327","price":166.84,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0693\/2191\/6467\/files\/66tqfen_-j9780231219327.webp?v=1777663338","url":"https:\/\/thereadinghousebookcompany.com\/products\/writing-to-the-rhythm-of-labor-cultural-politics-of-the-chinese-revolution-1942-1976-paperback","provider":"The Reading House Book Company","version":"1.0","type":"link"}