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Revolution and Its Narratives China's Socialist Literary and Cultural Imaginaries, 1949-1966

Cai Xiang Karl Rebecca E. Zhong Xueping
Heftet / 2016 / Engelsk

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ISBN
9780822360698
Publisert
2016-02-26
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Duke University Press
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658 gr
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229 mm
Bredde
152 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
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Product language
Engelsk
Format
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Heftet

Forfatter
Cai Xiang
Redaktør
Karl Rebecca E.
Zhong Xueping

Biographical note

Cai Xiang is Professor of Chinese Literature and Director of the Research Institute for Contemporary Literature at Shanghai University.  Rebecca E. Karl is Associate Professor of History at New York University. She is the author of The Magic of Concepts: History and the Economic in Twentieth-Century China. Xueping Zhong is Professor of Chinese Literature and Culture at Tufts University and the author of Masculinity Besieged?: Issues of Modernity and Male Subjectivity in Chinese Literature of the Late Twentieth Century, also published by Duke University Press.  

Revolution and Its Narratives China's Socialist Literary and Cultural Imaginaries, 1949-1966

Cai Xiang Karl Rebecca E. Zhong Xueping
Heftet / 2016 / Engelsk
Cai Xiang Karl Rebecca E. Zhong Xueping
Heftet / 2016 / Engelsk
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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.  
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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. 
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A Note on Translation  vii Acknowledgments  ix Introduction to the English Translation / Rebecca E. Karl and Xueping Zhong  xi Introduction. Literature and Revolutionary China  1 1. The National/The Local: Conflict, Negotiation, and Capitulation in the Revolutionary Imagination  27 2. The Mobilization Structure: The Masses, Cadres, and Intellectuals  85 3. Youth, Love, "Natural Rights," and Sex  145 4. Renarrating the History of the Revolution: From Hero to Legend  189 5. Narratives of Labor or Labor Utopias  251 6. Technological Revolution and Narratives of Working-Class Subjectivity  307 7. Cultural Politics, or Political Cultural Conflicts, in the 1960s  357 8. Conclusion. The Crisis of Socialism and Efforts to Overcome It  403 Bibliography  433 Index  447
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"Cai Xiang's study of socialist literary and cultural imaginaries, originally published in 2010, is one of the most provocative books on post-1949 Chinese literature and culture appearing in Chinese since the beginning of the new century. Its English version, Revolution and Its Narratives, brilliantly edited and meticulously translated by Rebecca E. Karl and Xueping Zhong, makes a significant and timely contribution to ongoing debates about the cultural-political legacies of revolutionary China."
Les mer
"Cai Xiang is a self-reflexive and capacious thinker. His dialectical approach to unresolvable tensions and contradictions within Chinese socialism is extremely valuable for scholars who take the lived experience of socialism seriously. This timely translation will help English-language readers reassess their received views about China's socialist past and its postsocialist present, allowing them to better appreciate why conflicting stories about the Chinese revolution continue to shape China's self-understanding and its position in the world." 
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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.  
Les mer
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. 
Les mer
A Note on Translation  vii Acknowledgments  ix Introduction to the English Translation / Rebecca E. Karl and Xueping Zhong  xi Introduction. Literature and Revolutionary China  1 1. The National/The Local: Conflict, Negotiation, and Capitulation in the Revolutionary Imagination  27 2. The Mobilization Structure: The Masses, Cadres, and Intellectuals  85 3. Youth, Love, "Natural Rights," and Sex  145 4. Renarrating the History of the Revolution: From Hero to Legend  189 5. Narratives of Labor or Labor Utopias  251 6. Technological Revolution and Narratives of Working-Class Subjectivity  307 7. Cultural Politics, or Political Cultural Conflicts, in the 1960s  357 8. Conclusion. The Crisis of Socialism and Efforts to Overcome It  403 Bibliography  433 Index  447
Les mer
"Cai Xiang's study of socialist literary and cultural imaginaries, originally published in 2010, is one of the most provocative books on post-1949 Chinese literature and culture appearing in Chinese since the beginning of the new century. Its English version, Revolution and Its Narratives, brilliantly edited and meticulously translated by Rebecca E. Karl and Xueping Zhong, makes a significant and timely contribution to ongoing debates about the cultural-political legacies of revolutionary China."
Les mer
"Cai Xiang is a self-reflexive and capacious thinker. His dialectical approach to unresolvable tensions and contradictions within Chinese socialism is extremely valuable for scholars who take the lived experience of socialism seriously. This timely translation will help English-language readers reassess their received views about China's socialist past and its postsocialist present, allowing them to better appreciate why conflicting stories about the Chinese revolution continue to shape China's self-understanding and its position in the world." 
Les mer

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780822360698
Publisert
2016-02-26
Utgiver
Vendor
Duke University Press
Vekt
658 gr
Høyde
229 mm
Bredde
152 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet

Forfatter
Cai Xiang
Redaktør
Karl Rebecca E.
Zhong Xueping

Biographical note

Cai Xiang is Professor of Chinese Literature and Director of the Research Institute for Contemporary Literature at Shanghai University.  Rebecca E. Karl is Associate Professor of History at New York University. She is the author of The Magic of Concepts: History and the Economic in Twentieth-Century China. Xueping Zhong is Professor of Chinese Literature and Culture at Tufts University and the author of Masculinity Besieged?: Issues of Modernity and Male Subjectivity in Chinese Literature of the Late Twentieth Century, also published by Duke University Press.  

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