Words and their stories : : essays on the language of the Chinese Revolution / / edited by Ban Wang.

• Superior document: Handbook of Oriental studies. Section four, China, v. 27 = Handbuch der orientalistik
• TeilnehmendeR: Wang, Ban, 1957-
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Language: English
• Series: Handbuch der Orientalistik. China ; 27. Bd.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (352 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.
• Other title: Preliminary Material /; Understanding The Chinese Revolution Through Words: An Introduction /; 1. Revolution: From Literary Revolution To Revolutionary Literature /; 2. The Long March /; 3. Rectification: Party Discipline, Intellectual Remolding, And The Formation Of A Political Community /; 4. Worker-Peasant-Soldier Literature /; 5. Steel Is Made Through Persistent Tempering /; 6. Socialist Realism /; 7. Political Lyric /; 8. Writing The Actual /; 9. Nowhere In The World Does There Exist Love Or Hatred Without Reason /; 10. Promote Physical Culture And Sport, Improve The People’s Constitution /; 11. Typical People In Typical Circumstances /; 12. Use The Past To Serve The Present; The Foreign To Serve China /; 13. Women Can Hold Up Half The Sky /; 14. Let A Hundred Flowers Blossom, Let A Hundred Schools Of Thought Contend /; 15. They Love Battle Array, Not Silks And Satins /; 16. The Three Prominences /; 17. Revolutionary Narrative In The Seventeen Years Period /; Bibliography /; Index /
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 1283039567; 9786613039569; 9004188614; 9004188606
• ISSN: 0169-9520
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Ban Wang.

As China joins the capitalist world economy, the problems of social disintegration that gave rise to the earlier revolutionary social movements are becoming pressing. Instead of viewing the Chinese Revolution as an academic study, these essays suggest that the motifs of the Revolution are still alive and relevant. The slogan “Farewell to Revolution” that obscures the revolutionary language is premature. In spite of dislocations and ruptures in the revolutionary language, to rethink this discourse is to revisit a history in terms of sedimented layers of linguistic meanings and political aspirations. Earlier meanings of revolutionary words may persist or coexist with non-revolutionary rivals. Recovery of the vital uses of key revolutionary words proffers critical alternatives in which contemporary capitalist myths can be contested.