Table of Contents

Part I “Letting One Hundred Flowers Blossom” and “Getting Rid of the Stale and Bringing Forth the Fresh”---Policies for Chinese Theatre in the New Era. 1. Liberation and “Theatrical Reform”. 2. Rectification of Deviation and “May 5th Instruction”. 3. National Joint Performance and Review of Spoken Drama. 4. Removing the Restrictive Rules Detrimental to Theatrical Development. A Brief Summary of Part I. Part II Eulogizing “the Great Leap Forward Movement” and Recalling Revolutionary History. 5. “The Great Leap Forward Movement”. 6. Upholds of Three Theatrical Categories (New Historical Drama, Adapted Traditional Drama and Modern Drama). 7. A Review of The Theatrical Development from 1949 to 1962. A Brief Summary of Part II.

About the Author

Fu Jin is Vice Chairman of the China Literature and Art Critics Association, Member of the Disciplinary Review Group of the Academic Degrees Committee of the State Council (Drama and Film & Television); Professor and Doctoral Supervisor at the School Of Liberal Arts, Nanjing University; and Director of the Academic Committee of the National Academy of Chinese Theatrical Arts. He is mainly engaged in studies on Chinese drama.