CONTENTS
PREFACE /ACKNOWLEDGMENTS /
INTRODUCTION / CHRONOLOGY
PART ONE: From Yenan to Peking (1942-1955)
from “Talks at the Yenan Forum on Literature and Art”
“We Must Still Prepare for a Long and Determined Struggle”
from The Sun Shines over the Sangkan River
from A Thousand Miles of Lovely Land
Before the New Bureau Director Came
Poems
“Short Song on Autumn Harvest”
“The Great Wall, Within and Beyond”
from “The Mightiest Voice of Peace”
PART TWO: The Hundred Flowers Movement and the Anti-Rightist Campaign (1956-1958)
from “The Young Man Who Has Just Arrived at the Organization Department”
from Great Changes in a Mountain Village
from Keep the Red Flags Flying
from Dripping Water Wears Away the Rock
Poems
“Ascending the Wildgoose Tower”
“The Clouds Race on the Sea’s Face”
“A Gift for the Reservoir Project”
“Dialogue of the Earth Movers”
PART THREE: The Great Leap Forward and Anti-Revisionism (1959–1961)
from Together through Thick and Thin
“The Path of Socialist Literature and Art in China”
“The New Production Brigade Leader”
Poems
“To the Tune ‘Partridge Sky’ “
“Three Gorges of the Yangtze River”
“Night Passage through Wanhsien”
“The First Morning in Vietnam”
“Three Young Women from South Vietnam”
“Song of the Landscape of Kweilin”
“I Sing for My Fatherland, Ten Years Old”
“Red Willow, Sand Jujube, and White Caltrop”
“People, Houses, South of the River”
“A Song of Spring South of the River”
PART FOUR: The Socialist Education of the People (1962–1964)
from Wildfire and Wind Vie in an Old City
CH’EN YÜN, CHANG LI-HUI, HSU CHING-HSIEN
SHAO CH’ÜAN-LIN and the
“Middle Character” Controversy
Poems
“To the Tune ‘Butterfly in Love with Flowers’ ”
“To the Tune ‘West River Moon’”
“In Praise of the New Yellow River”
“Mountain Eagle Gliding over Clouds”
“Passing a River of Pearls at Night”
“Boatman’s Song on the Chia-ling River”
“June Flood Pours toward Chungking”
“A Train Passing through Shanhaikwan”
“The Fight Will Never Be Done”
“Song of a Red Factory—An
Ordinary Woman Worker”
“Sons and Daughters of Szechwan Rivers”
“A Chemical Fertilizer Worker’s Lyrics”
“The Mountain Girl Likes to Talk”
“The Character of the Lhasa River”
“Thunder Crosses the Wilderness in Long Strides”
CHIANG P’ING, HUANG SHOU-CH’ANG
“Hope You Take Care to Stop the Flow”
“Overnight Stop, under Bridge, I
Dream of Hurrying Along”
PART FIVE: The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution (1964-1970)
from The Northland and South of the River
Poems
“Return to Well Ridge Mountains”
Proletarian Poets of the Early 1970s
“Greeting the New Year before the Furnace”
PART SIX: The Aftermath: The Fall of the Gang of Four—Returns and Reversals (1971–)
MA CHI and T’ANG CHIEH-CHUNG COMIC DIALOGUES
Poems
GLOSSARY / TRANSLATORS AND CONTRIBUTORS