A novel approach to China : what China debaters can learn from contemporary Chinese novelists / Gengsong Gao.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gao, Gengsong, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Chinese fiction--History and criticism.

Chinese fiction.

China--In literature.

China.

China--Politics and government.

Politics and government.

Literature.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xxvii, 233 pages ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

Singapore : Palgrave Macmillan, [2021]

Summary:

Gengsong Gao is Assistant Professor of Chinese Studies at the University of Richmond, where he teaches Chinese language courses and courses concerning modern and contemporary Chinese literature and culture. This book explores Chinese novelists distinctive contributions to the China debate in terms of the key issues of Chinese language, power dynamics and Confucian tradition. As China is rising, Chinese scholars and policymakers are debating heatedly over Chinas past, present and future. Who are the major debaters? How do they analyze Chinas problems and figure out solutions? What are the main achievements and weaknesses of the Chinese intellectual debate and discourse? Chinese novelists also get involved in the China debate. However, their voices are rarely heard. This book argues that, by dramatizing the diversities of ordinary social actors everyday languages, active discursive practices and enchanted local traditions, Chinese novelists do not merely illustrate the dominant liberal, the New Left and the New Confucian ideologies, but enrich the China debate and provide a "novel" approach to our understanding of modern China.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

9789811665172

9811665176

OCLC:

1285689754

Publisher Number:

99989876818