War and popular culture : resistance in modern China, 1937-1945 / Chang-tai Hung.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 367-413) and index.

[ch]. 1. The rise of modern popular culture -- Treaty ports and Shanghai -- A new drama in urban China -- The emergence of Chinese cartoons -- The new press and new journalists -- [ch]. 2. Spoken dramas -- Popularization -- The street play Lay down your whip -- Female symbols of resistance : patriotic courtesans and women warriors -- Historical plays -- Traditional dramas -- [ch]. 3. Cartoons -- The National Salvation Cartoon Propaganda Corps -- Images of war -- A new form of art -- War and peace in the cartoons of Feng Zikai -- [ch]. 4. Newspapers -- Wartime dispatches -- Fan Changjiang and the rhetoric of war -- The war correspondent -- The journalist as critic -- Dissemination and decentralization -- Local newspapers -- [ch]. 5. New wine in old bottles -- The use of popular literature -- Lao She and Lao Xiang -- Drum singing and other popular culture forms -- Popular reading materials -- [ch]. 6. Popular culture in the communist areas -- The village drama movement -- Art for politics' sake -- Newspapers and a new language -- Creating a new culture -- The border region culture -- [ch]. 7. A new political culture -- Intellectuals and participation -- The dissemination of urban popular culture forms -- Village culture.