Revolution and Its Narratives: China's Socialist Literary and Cultural Imaginaries, 1949-1966 by Cai, Xiang

Revolution and Its Narratives: China's Socialist Literary and Cultural Imaginaries, 1949-1966 (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780822360544)

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Revolution and Its Narratives: China's Socialist Literary and Cultural Imaginaries, 1949-1966 by Cai, Xiang

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

$119.95
Revolution and Its Narratives: China's Socialist Literary and Cultural Imaginaries, 1949-1966 by Cai, Xiang

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

$119.95
Format: Hardcover
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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.

Author: Xiang Cai
ISBN-10: 0822360543
ISBN-13: 9780822360544
Publisher: Duke University Press
Language: English
Published: 02/26/2016
Pages: 480
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.72lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.20w x 1.10d

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By Xiang Cai
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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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