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.

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English
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Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 2016.
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xxix, 450 pages ; 24 cm

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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.
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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."
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references (pages 433-446) and index.
    Language note
    Translated from the Chinese.
    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.
    ISBN
    • 9780822360544 ((hardcover ; : alk. paper))
    • 0822360543 ((hardcover ; : alk. paper))
    • 9780822360698 ((pbk. ; : alk. paper))
    • 0822360691 ((pbk. ; : alk. paper))
    LCCN
    2015029175
    OCLC
    906010738
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