Revolution and form : : Mao Dun's early novels and Chinese literary modernity / / by Jianhua Chen ; edited and translated by Carlos Rojas.

• Author: Chen, Jianhua, 1947-
• TeilnehmendeR: Rojas, Carlos, 1970-
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2018.
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: Ideas, History, and Modern China 17.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (346 pages)

In Revolution and Form , Jianhua Chen offers a detailed analysis of several early works by Mao Dun, focusing in particular on their engagement with themes of modernity and revolution, gender and desire. One of the leading authors of the early twentieth century May Fourth period, Mao Dun had a complicated relationship with both the Communist Party and the women’s liberation movement, and his fictional works reflect these twin concerns with revolution and gender. Chen’s study examines Mao Dun’s early fiction in relationship to the biographical and historical conditions under which it was produced. Translated by Max Bohnenkamp, Todd Foley, FU Poshek, Nga Li LAM, LI Meng, and Carlos Rojas.

Table of Contents

Front Matter -- Copyright page / Jianhua Chen -- List of Translators / Jianhua Chen -- Editor’s Preface / Jianhua Chen -- The Preconception of the Modernity of Fictional Form / Jianhua Chen -- Fictional Form and Totality / Jianhua Chen -- “Revolution Plus Love” and Imagining Women in the Public Sphere / Jianhua Chen -- The Eclipse Trilogy: Female Bodies in a Mirrored Framework of Time / Jianhua Chen -- Zhang Qiuliu: The Double Displacement of City and Revolution / Jianhua Chen -- “Creation”: The Figure of the Modern Woman and Revolutionary Public Space / Jianhua Chen -- Rainbow: Coming of Age and the Modern Epic Novel / Jianhua Chen -- Breasts and the Revolutionary Utopian Fantasy / Jianhua Chen -- Conclusion / Jianhua Chen -- Back Matter -- Index / Jianhua Chen.