| Description |
1 online resource (vi, 316 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
e-Duke books scholarly collection.
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| Contents |
Subjectivity, Marxism and cultural theory in China / Liu Kang -- Subjectivity of literature revisited / Liu Zaifu -- Split China, or, the historical/imaginary : toward a theory of the displacement of subjectivity at the margins of modernity / Ching-kiu Stephen Chan -- Narratives of modern selfhood : first-person fiction in May Fourth literature / Lydia H. Liu -- Female subjectivity and gender relations : the early stories of Lu Yin and Bing Xin / Wendy Larson -- Ideologies of realism in modern China : the hard imperatives of imported theory / Theodore Huters -- Lu Xun, Shen Congwen and decapitation / David D.W. Wang -- Red sorghum : limits of transgression / Tonglin Lu -- Narrative, ideology, subjectivity : defining a subversive discourse in Chinese reportage / Yingjin Zhang -- Anxiety of portraiture : quest for/questioning ancestral icons in post-Mao China / Yuejin Wang -- Resisting writing / Li Tuo -- Function of new theory : what does it mean to talk about postmodernism in China? / Xiaobing Tang |
| Summary |
This collection of essays addresses the perception that our understanding of modern China will be enhanced by opening the literature of China to more rigorous theoretical and comparative study. In doing so, the book confronts the problematic and complex subject of China's literary, theoretical, and cultural responses to the experience of the modern. With chapters by writers, scholars, and critics from mainland China, Hong Kong, and the United States, this volume explores the complexity of representing modernity within the Chinese context. Addressing the problem of finding a proper language for |
| Analysis |
Chinese literature Related to Politics |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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English |
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Print version record |
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digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
| Subject |
Chinese literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
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Politics and literature -- China
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Communism and literature -- China
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Asian -- General.
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Chinese literature
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Communism and literature
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Politics and literature
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Politique et littérature -- Chine.
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Communisme et littérature -- Chine.
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Littérature chinoise -- 20e siècle -- Histoire et critique.
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China
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Liu, Kang, 1955- editor.
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Tang, Xiaobing, 1964- editor.
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| LC no. |
93004448 |
| ISBN |
9780822381846 |
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0822381842 |
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1282904272 |
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9781282904279 |
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9786612904271 |
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6612904275 |
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0822314037 |
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9780822314035 |
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