Internet Literature in China by Hockx, Michel

Internet Literature in China (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780231160827)

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Internet Literature in China by Hockx, Michel

Internet Literature in China

$55.00
Internet Literature in China by Hockx, Michel

Internet Literature in China

$55.00
Format: Hardcover
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Since the 1990s, Chinese literary enthusiasts have explored new spaces for creative expression online, giving rise to a modern genre that has transformed Chinese culture and society. Ranging from the self-consciously avant-garde to the pornographic, web-based writing has introduced innovative forms, themes, and practices into Chinese literature and its aesthetic traditions.

Conducting the first comprehensive survey in English of this phenomenon, Michel Hockx describes in detail the types of Chinese literature taking shape right now online and their novel aesthetic, political, and ideological challenges. Offering a unique portal into postsocialist Chinese culture, he presents a complex portrait of internet culture and control in China that avoids one-dimensional representations of oppression. The Chinese government still strictly regulates the publishing world, yet it is growing increasingly tolerant of internet literature and its publishing practices while still drawing a clear yet ever-shifting ideological bottom line. Hockx interviews online authors, publishers, and censors, capturing the convergence of mass media, creativity, censorship, and free speech that is upending traditional hierarchies and conventions within China--and across Asia.

Author: Michel Hockx
ISBN-10: 0231160828
ISBN-13: 9780231160827
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Language: English
Published: 02/10/2015
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.10w x 0.90d

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Choice 06/01/2015 pg. 1651
By Michel Hockx
By Michel Hockx
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Michel Hockx is professor of Chinese at SOAS, University of London, and founding director of the SOAS China Institute. He studied Chinese language and literature at Leiden University in The Netherlands and at Liaoning University and Peking University in China. His research looks at modern and contemporary Chinese literary communities and the way they organize themselves, their relation to the state, and the technologies they employ to distribute their work. He is the author of Questions of Style: Literary Societies and Literary Journals in Modern China, 1911-1937 and A Snowy Morning: Eight Chinese Poets on the Road to Modernity.

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