Jennifer Altehenger is associate professor of Chinese history and Jessica Rawson Fellow in Modern Asian History at the University of Oxford and Merton College. She is author of Legal Lessons: Popularizing Laws in the People’s Republic of China, 1949–1989. Denise Y. Ho is associate professor of history at Yale University. She is author of Curating Revolution: Politics on Display in Mao’s China.

"In addition to the variety of subjects covered, the richness of the book – and the pleasure derived from reading it – lies in the wide range of sources used: Party publications, popular media, general magazines, professional journals, comic books, technical manuals, as well as guidebooks, texts written by intellectuals, propaganda posters, films or customs regulations. The reader travels from rural to urban China, from construction sites to restaurant kitchens, from cinemas to car factories. This book confirms how important it is for historical research to draw on a wide variety of sources to capture the depth of everyday life."

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Making Revolution Material / Jennifer Altehenger and Denise Y. Ho1. Bamboo Objects and Socialist Construction / Jennifer Altehenger2. The Brick / Cole Roskam3. Design and Handicraft / Christine I. Ho4. Dance Props and the Rural Imaginary / Emily Wilcox5. Mobile Projectionists and the Things They Carried / Jie Li6. Outside Objects and Material Propaganda / Denise Y. Ho7. The Problematics of Plenty / Laurence Coderre8. Nationalizing Food Provision in Beijing / Madeleine Yue Dong9. One Country, Two Material Cultures / Jacob Eyferth10. The Makings of China's Cold War Motor City / Covell F. MeyskensAfterword: Material Culture and the Socialist Uncanny in Mao’s China / Jonathan BachChinese Character GlossarySelected BibliographyList of ContributorsIndex

Jennifer Altehenger is associate professor of Chinese history and Jessica Rawson Fellow in Modern Asian History at the University of Oxford and Merton College. She is author of Legal Lessons: Popularizing Laws in the People’s Republic of China, 1949–1989. Denise Y. Ho is associate professor of history at Yale University. She is author of Curating Revolution: Politics on Display in Mao’s China.

"In addition to the variety of subjects covered, the richness of the book – and the pleasure derived from reading it – lies in the wide range of sources used: Party publications, popular media, general magazines, professional journals, comic books, technical manuals, as well as guidebooks, texts written by intellectuals, propaganda posters, films or customs regulations. The reader travels from rural to urban China, from construction sites to restaurant kitchens, from cinemas to car factories. This book confirms how important it is for historical research to draw on a wide variety of sources to capture the depth of everyday life."

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Making Revolution Material / Jennifer Altehenger and Denise Y. Ho1. Bamboo Objects and Socialist Construction / Jennifer Altehenger2. The Brick / Cole Roskam3. Design and Handicraft / Christine I. Ho4. Dance Props and the Rural Imaginary / Emily Wilcox5. Mobile Projectionists and the Things They Carried / Jie Li6. Outside Objects and Material Propaganda / Denise Y. Ho7. The Problematics of Plenty / Laurence Coderre8. Nationalizing Food Provision in Beijing / Madeleine Yue Dong9. One Country, Two Material Cultures / Jacob Eyferth10. The Makings of China's Cold War Motor City / Covell F. MeyskensAfterword: Material Culture and the Socialist Uncanny in Mao’s China / Jonathan BachChinese Character GlossarySelected BibliographyList of ContributorsIndex

Jennifer Altehenger is associate professor of Chinese history and Jessica Rawson Fellow in Modern Asian History at the University of Oxford and Merton College. She is author of Legal Lessons: Popularizing Laws in the People’s Republic of China, 1949–1989. Denise Y. Ho is associate professor of history at Yale University. She is author of Curating Revolution: Politics on Display in Mao’s China.

"In addition to the variety of subjects covered, the richness of the book – and the pleasure derived from reading it – lies in the wide range of sources used: Party publications, popular media, general magazines, professional journals, comic books, technical manuals, as well as guidebooks, texts written by intellectuals, propaganda posters, films or customs regulations. The reader travels from rural to urban China, from construction sites to restaurant kitchens, from cinemas to car factories. This book confirms how important it is for historical research to draw on a wide variety of sources to capture the depth of everyday life."

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Making Revolution Material / Jennifer Altehenger and Denise Y. Ho1. Bamboo Objects and Socialist Construction / Jennifer Altehenger2. The Brick / Cole Roskam3. Design and Handicraft / Christine I. Ho4. Dance Props and the Rural Imaginary / Emily Wilcox5. Mobile Projectionists and the Things They Carried / Jie Li6. Outside Objects and Material Propaganda / Denise Y. Ho7. The Problematics of Plenty / Laurence Coderre8. Nationalizing Food Provision in Beijing / Madeleine Yue Dong9. One Country, Two Material Cultures / Jacob Eyferth10. The Makings of China's Cold War Motor City / Covell F. MeyskensAfterword: Material Culture and the Socialist Uncanny in Mao’s China / Jonathan BachChinese Character GlossarySelected BibliographyList of ContributorsIndex