Shelley Hawks received her PhD in history with a specialty in twentieth-century China from Brown University in 2003. She teaches art history and world history at Middlesex Community College, in Bedford, Massachusetts, and is the author of book chapters and articles on post-revolutionary China. This is her first book.
Preface
Acknowledgments
Chronology of Major Events
Introduction: Painting by Candlelight in Mao's China
Part One Cartoonists
1. Ding Cong's True Story of the Outcast Ah Q
2. Feng Zikai Protests the Giant Hedge Cutters
Part Two Academy Painters and a President
3. Li Keran's Luminous Path through Mountains
4. Li Kuchan's Eagle Gazes Far
5. Huang Yongyu's Eye Talk
6. Pan Tianshou's Nocturne for a Plum Tree
Part Three Communist Idealist Shi Lu
7. Inside the Secret Notebook
8. At Cliff 's Edge
9. From Trauma to Recovery
Conclusion
Appendix: Poems from Shi Lu's Secret Notebook, ca. 1973-75
Notes
Glossary
Bibliography
Index
