This book examines the introduction of Soviet socialist culture in the People's Republic of China, focusing on the period of Sino-Soviet friendship in the 1950s. Drawing on archival findings, newspapers, magazines and interviews, the book delves into changes in Chinese popular imagination and everyday aesthetics contingent upon Soviet influence.

Yan Li is Assistant Professor of History at Oakland University, USA. She received her Ph.D. in World History from Northeastern University, with a concentration in Modern China. Her doctoral thesis examined China's cultural interactions with the Soviet Union and the impact of Soviet culture on Maoist China. She is interested in cultural history, women and gender studies, and cinema studies related to the period of modern China. She teaches introductory courses on Chinese history and culture, as well as upper-division courses on Chinese women, the Qing Dynasty, Chinese revolutions, and contemporary China.

Part I: The Avowed Internationalism; Chapter 1: The Propaganda of Friendship; Chapter 2: One World, One Language?; Part II: The New Outlook; Chapter 3: Urban Landscapes and Socialist Architecture; Chapter 4: New Clothes and Socialist Fashion; Part III: The Public and the Private; Chapter 5: Soviet Literature in 1950s China; Chapter 6: Soviet Literature in China's Cultural Revolution;