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Perfect worlds : utopian fiction in China and the West / Douwe Fokkema.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Fokkema, Douwe Wessel, 1931-2011.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Utopias in literature.
- Utopias.
- Physical Description:
- 448 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2011]
- Summary:
- "Perfect Worlds offers an extensive historical analysis of utopian narratives in the Chinese and Euro-American traditions. This comparative study discusses, among other things, More's criticism of Plato, the European orientalist search for utopia in China, Wells's Modern Utopia and his talk with Stalin, Chinese writers constructing their Confucianist utopia, traces of Daoism in Mao Zedong's utopianism and politics and finally the rise of dystopian writing - a negative expression of the utopian impulse - in Europe and America as well as in China"--P. 4 of cover.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 9789089643506
- 9089643508
- 9789048514861
- 904851486X
- OCLC:
- 768993892
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