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Revolution and its narratives : China's socialist literary and cultural imaginaries (1949-1966) / Cai Xiang ; edited and translated by Rebecca E. Karl and Xueping Zhong.
Van Pelt Library PL2303 .C27913 2016
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cai, Xiang, 1953- author.
- 蔡翔, 1953- author.
- Standardized Title:
- Ge ming/xu shu. English
- 革命/叙述. English http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2015098018
- Language:
- Chinese
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Politics and culture.
- China.
- Chinese literature--20th century--History and criticism.
- Chinese literature.
- Politics and culture--China.
- Socialism in literature.
- Local Subjects:
- Chinese literature.
- Politics and culture.
- Socialism in literature.
- China.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Physical Description:
- xxix, 450 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2016.
- Language Note:
- Translated from the Chinese.
- Summary:
- Published in China in 2010 and appearing here in English for the first time, Revolution and its Narratives is a historical, literary, and critical account of the cultural production of the narratives of China's socialist revolution that illuminates the complexity of socialist art, culture, and politics.
- Contents:
- Literature and revolutionary China
- The national/the local: conflict, negotiation, and capitulation in the revolutionary imagination
- The mobilization structure : the masses, cadres, and intellectuals
- Youth, love, "natural rights, " and sex
- Renarrating the history of the revolution : from hero to legend
- Narratives of labor or labor utopias
- Technological revolution and narratives of working-class subjectivity
- Cultural politics, or political cultural conflicts, in the 1960s
- The crisis of socialism and efforts to overcome it.
- Notes:
- "The Chinese edition was originally published by Peking University Press in 2010. This translation is published by arrangement with Peking University Press, Beijing, China."
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 433-446) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780822360544
- 0822360543
- 9780822360698
- 0822360691
- OCLC:
- 906010738
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