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Yu Zhang, "Going to the Countryside: The Rural in the Modern Chinese Cultural Imagination, 1915–1965" (U Michigan Press, 2020)

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Gossip, Multimedia Memory, and Rural Mobilization

How gossip and local storytelling became political discourse and multimedia governance, followed by 1950s homecoming campaigns, cinematic portrayals of playful collective labor, romance mobilized for production, and trains/construction as symbols of socialist mobilization and later nostalgia.

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