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Revolution and its narratives : China's socialist literary and cultural imaginaries (1949-1966) / Cai Xiang ; translated by Rebecca E. Karl and Xueping Zhong.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cai, Xiang, 1953- author.
- Standardized Title:
- Ge ming/xu shu. English
- 革命/叙述. English
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Chinese literature--20th century--History and criticism.
- Chinese literature.
- Politics and culture--China.
- Politics and culture.
- Socialism in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (481 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2016.
- Language Note:
- English
- 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:
- 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.
- 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 and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780822374619
- 0822374617
- OCLC:
- 932368688
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