The Uses of Literature : : Life in the Socialist Chinese Literary System /

The Uses of Literature : : Life in the Socialist Chinese Literary System / / Perry Link.

Why do people in socialist China read and write literary works? Earlier studies in Western Sinology have approached Chinese texts from the socialist era as portraits of society, as keys to the tug-of-war of dissent, or, more recently, as pursuit of "pure art." The Uses of Literature looks...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
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Link, Perry,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2022]
©2000
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (386 p.) :; 1 table, 6 halftones
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • A NOTE ON DOCUMENTATION
  • The Uses of Literature
  • INTRODUCTION
  • CHAPTER ONE Historical Setting
  • CHAPTER TWO The Mechanics of Literary Control
  • CHAPTER THREE Writers
  • CHAPTER FOUR Media and Market
  • CHAPTER FIVE Readers: The Popular Level
  • CHAPTER SIX Readers: Socially Engaged Level
  • CHAPTER SEVEN The Uses of Literature
  • SELECT GLOSSARY OF CHINESE CHARACTERS
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY OF WORKS CITED IN THE NOTES
  • INDEX

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