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Author Volland, Nicolai, author.

Title Socialist cosmopolitanism : the Chinese literary universe, 1945-1965 / Nicolai Volland
Published New York : Columbia University Press, [2017]
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Description 1 online resource (xii, 281 pages)
Series Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University.
Contents Introduction -- The politics of texts in motion -- The geopoetics of land reform in Northeast Asia -- Fictionalizing the international working class -- Soviet spaceships in socialist China -- Sons and daughters of the Revolution -- Mapping the brave new world of literature -- Conclusion
Summary Socialist Cosmopolitanism offers an innovative interpretation of literary works from the Mao era that reads Chinese socialist literature as world literature. As Nicolai Volland demonstrates, after 1949 China engaged with the world beyond its borders in a variety of ways and on many levels--politically, economically, and culturally. Far from rejecting the worldliness of earlier eras, the young People's Republic developed its own cosmopolitanism. Rather than a radical break with the past, Chinese socialist literature should be seen as an integral and important chapter in China's long search to find a place within world literature. Socialist Cosmopolitanism revisits a range of genres, from poetry and land reform novels to science fiction and children's literature, and shows how Chinese writers and readers alike saw their own literary production as part of a much larger literary universe. This literary space, reaching from Beijing to Berlin, from Prague to Pyongyang, from Warsaw to Moscow to Hanoi, allowed authors and texts to travel, reinventing the meaning of world literature. Chinese socialist literature was not driven solely by politics but by an ambitious--but ultimately doomed--attempt to redraw the literary world map
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-270) and index
Notes In English
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Subject Chinese literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
Socialism and literature -- China
Socialism in literature.
Communism and literature -- China
Communism in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Semiotics & Theory.
Chinese literature
Communism and literature
Communism in literature
Socialism and literature
Socialism in literature
China
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2017002233
ISBN 0231544758
9780231544757