Pulling Strings at the Margins: Blind Storytellers and the Politics of Survival in Socialist China, 1938–1977
Modern China: An International Journal of History and Social Science
Published online on August 05, 2026
Abstract
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This article examines the mobilization and governance of blind storytellers in Southeast Shanxi from 1938 to 1977, arguing that disabled bodies occupied a structurally ambivalent position within the Chinese Communist Party’s revolutionary project. Their ...
This article examines the mobilization and governance of blind storytellers in Southeast Shanxi from 1938 to 1977, arguing that disabled bodies occupied a structurally ambivalent position within the Chinese Communist Party’s revolutionary project. Their ...