| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 281 pages). |
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text file PDF |
| Series |
Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
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Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-270) and index. |
| Contents |
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. The politics of texts in motion -- 2. The geopoetics of land reform in Northeast Asia -- 3. Fictionalizing the international working class -- 4. Soviet spaceships in socialist China -- 5. Sons and daughters of the Revolution -- 6. Mapping the brave new world of literature -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Glossary of Chinese characters -- Bibliography -- Index. |
| 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Language |
In English. |
| Subject |
Chinese literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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Chinese literature. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
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Socialism and literature -- China.
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Socialism and literature. |
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China. |
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Socialism in literature.
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Socialism in literature. |
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Communism and literature -- China.
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Communism and literature. |
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Communism in literature.
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Communism in literature. |
| Chronological Term |
1900-1999 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Volland, Nicolai. Socialist cosmopolitanism. New York : Columbia University Press, [2017] 9780231183109 (DLC) 2017002233 (OCoLC)964383647 |
| ISBN |
0231544758 (electronic book) |
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9780231544757 (electronic book) |
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9780231183109 (hardcover ; acid-free paper) |
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0231183100 (hardcover ; acid-free paper) |
| Standard No. |
10.7312/voll18310 |
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