Revolution and Its Narratives: China's Socialist Literary and Cultural Imaginaries, 1949-1966 - Hardcover

Cai, Xiang

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0822360543 ISBN 13: 9780822360544

Verlag: Duke University Press, 2016

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"Revolution & Its Narratives is beyond any doubt a major achievement and a substantial contribution to the field of Chinese cultural production of the 1950s and 1960s. Cai's superb sensibility to theory, erudition, and ethical commitment to the subaltern classes make his book a compelling work of mind and passion." -- Yiju Huang * China Review International * "This is a very timely and provocative book, and I applaud the translators' insights and work. By articulating unrealized ideals of socialism and revolution, the book will make a valuable contribution to our rethinking of Mao-era literature and culture." -- Ban Wang * Chinese Literature: Essays, Articles, Reviews * "Revolution and Its Narratives contains numerous original insights, based on a wealth of readings of both classics of the 1950s and 1960s and many lesser-known works. It covers a wide range of topics and will be essential reading for scholars and graduate students working on Chinese socialist literature." -- Nicolai Volland * Modern Chinese Literature and Culture * "Cai Xiang's study of socialist literary and cultural imaginaries, originally published in 2010, is one of the most provocative books on post-1949 Chinese literature and culture appearing in Chinese since the beginning of the new century. Its English version, Revolution and Its Narratives, brilliantly edited and meticulously translated by Rebecca E. Karl and Xueping Zhong, makes a significant and timely contribution to ongoing debates about the cultural-political legacies of revolutionary China." -- Pu Wang * The China Quarterly *

Reseña del editor:

Published in China in 2010, Revolution and Its Narratives is a historical, literary, and critical account of the cultural production of the narratives of China's socialist revolution. Through theoretical, empirical, and textual analysis of major and minor novels, dramas, short stories, and cinema, Cai Xiang offers a complex study that exceeds the narrow confines of existing views of socialist aesthetics. By engaging with the relationship among culture, history, and politics in the context of the revolutionary transformation of Chinese society and arts, Cai illuminates the utopian promise as well as the ultimate impossibility of socialist cultural production. Translated, annotated, and edited by Rebecca E. Karl and Xueping Zhong, this translation presents Cai's influential work to English-language readers for the first time.

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• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2016
• ISBN 10: 0822360543
• ISBN 13: 9780822360544
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 480
• Herausgeber: Karl Rebecca E., Zhong Xueping