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To Survive: Zhao Dan and The Life of Wu Xun To Survive: Zhao Dan and The Life of Wu Xun
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To Thrive To Thrive
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Rebuilding Zhao Dan’s Stardom in Mao’s China Rebuilding Zhao Dan’s Stardom in Mao’s China
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The Debacle of The Life of Lu Xun The Debacle of The Life of Lu Xun
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To Survive: Zhao Dan’s Confessions as a Survival Tactic To Survive: Zhao Dan’s Confessions as a Survival Tactic
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Conclusion Conclusion
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2 From Wu Xun to Lu Xun: Film, Stardom, and Subjectivity in Mao’s China
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Published:January 2023
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Abstract
This chapter focuses on Zhao Dan’s (1915–1980) career in film after 1949 to investigate a specific type of stardom unique to Mao Zedong’s China. It argues that this new stardom was similar to what conventionally defines stardom, but with an added political dimension: Zhao Dan’s acquisition of high political standing in the People’s Republic of China (PRC). This chapter challenges the paradigm of accommodation and resistance between the tyrannical state and subordinated artists, which presupposes a subjectivity or selfhood on the part of artists that pre-existed and was maintained against the intrusive hegemonic ideologies of the state. Instead, it underscores that the making of Zhao Dan’s subjectivity in the PRC—his subjectivity-in-stardom in this case—was a dynamic process, a “becoming.”
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