| Painters and Politics in the People's Republic of China, 1949-1979 |
| Acknowledgments |
| Abbreviations |
| Introduction |
 | One Revolutionaries and Academics Art of the Republican Period |
| Two The Reform of Chinese Art 1949-1952 |
| Three From Popularization to Specialization |
| Four The Politicization of Guohua |
| Five The Great Leap Forward and Its Aftermath More, Faster Better Cheaper" |
 | Six The Cultural Revolution |
| • | Political Background: The Birth of the Red Guard Movement |
| • | Red Guard Artists, 1966-1968: The Overthrow of the Establishment |
| • | Red Guard Art |
| • | Labor Reform |
| • | The Shanghai Art World |
| • | Reconstruction of the National Bureaucracy |
| • | Rusticated Youth and the National Exhibitions |
| • | National Exhibitions of 1972-1975 |
| • | The Black Painting Exhibitions |
| Seven The Transition to "Artistic Democracy" 1976-1979 |
| Appendix I National Arts Administrators, 1949 |
| Appendix 2 National Art Administrators, 1960 |
| Appendix 3 National Art Administrators, 1979 |
| Appendix 4 Oil Painters in the Soviet Manner |
| Notes |
| List of Chinese Names and Terms |
| Selected Bibliography |
| Illustrations |
| Index |