List of Contributors -- Understanding the Chinese Revolution through Words: An Introduction (Ban Wang) -- 1. Revolution: From Literary Revolution to Revolutionary Literature (Jianhua Chen) -- 2. The Long March (Enhua Zhang) -- 3. Rectification: Party Discipline, Intellectual Remolding, and the Formation of a Political Community (Kirk A. Denton) -- 4. Worker-Peasant-Soldier Literature (Xiaomei Chen) -- 5. Steel Is Made through Persistent Tempering (Xinmin Liu) -- 6. Socialist Realism (Ban Wang) -- 7. Political Lyric (Xin Ning) -- 8. Writing the Actual (Charles A. Laughlin) -- 9. Nowhere in the World Does There Exist Love or Hatred without Reason (Haiyan Lee) -- 10. Promote Physical Culture and Sport, Improve the People's Constitution (Xiaoning Lu) -- 11. Typical People in Typical Circumstances (Richard King) -- 12. Use the Past to Serve the Present -- the Foreign to Serve China (Tina Mai Chen) -- 13. Women Can Hold Up Half the Sky (Xueping Zhong) -- 14. Let a Hundred Flowers Blossom, Let a Hundred Schools of Thought Contend (Richard Kraus) -- 15. They Love Battle Array, Not Silks and Satins (Tina Mai Chen) -- 16. The Three Prominences (Yizhong Gu) -- 17. Revolutionary Narrative in the Seventeen Years Period (Guo Bingru) -- Bibliography -- Index.