Visions of Dystopia in China's New Historical Novels / / Jeffrey Kinkley.
The depiction of personal and collective suffering in modern Chinese novels differs significantly from standard Communist accounts and many Eastern and Western historical narratives. Writers such as Yu Hua, Su Tong, Wang Anyi, Mo Yan, Han Shaogong, Ge Fei, Li Rui, and Zhang Wei skew and scramble com...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Backlist (2000-2014) eBook Package |
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Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2014] ©2014 |
Year of Publication: | 2014 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (304 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- 1. Introduction: Chinese Visions of History and Dystopia
- 2. Discomforts of Temporal Anomie
- 3. Projections of Historical Repetition
- 4. Alienation from the Group
- 5. Anarchy: Social, Moral, and Cosmic
- 6. Conclusion: The End of History, Dystopia, and "New" Historical Novels?
- List of Chinese Characters
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index