Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Poetic Interiorities: From Civilization to Nation -- 2. Poetry Off the Page: Sound Aesthetics in Print -- 3. Inventing Recitation: Poetry and the Idea of the Sounding Voice during the War of Resistance -- 4. Wartime Recitals and the Consolidation of a Genre -- 5. Zhu Ziqing and Situational Poetics: Sounding Out an Alternative -- 6 Calculated Passions: The Lyric and the Theatric in Mao-era Poetry Recitation -- 7. From Yundong to Huodong: The Value of Poetry Recitation in Postsocialist China -- Notes -- Glossary -- Works Cited -- Index.