1. Aesthetics, Modernity, and Alternative Modernity: The Case of China -- 2. The Formation of Marxist Aesthetics: From Shanghai to Yan'an -- 3. Hegemony and Counterhegemony: National Form and "Subjective Fighting Spirit" -- 4. Aesthetics, Ideology, and Cultural Reconstruction -- 5. Subjectivity and Aesthetic Marxism: Toward a Cultural Topology of Postrevolutionary Society.