China's socialist literary and cultural imaginaries, 1949-1966 /
First Statement of Responsibility
Cai Xiang ; edited and translated by Rebecca E. Karl and Xueping Zhong
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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xxix, 450 pages ;
Dimensions
24 cm
GENERAL NOTES
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"The Chinese edition was originally published by Peking University Press in 2010. This translation is published by arrangement with Peking University Press, Beijing, China."
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 433-446) and index
CONTENTS NOTE
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Introduction to the English translation / Rebecca E. Karl and Xueping Zhong -- 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
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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"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."--Publisher's description
UNIFORM TITLE
General Material Designation
Ge ming/xu shu.
Language (when part of a heading)
English
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Chinese literature-- 20th century-- History and criticism