| Description |
1 online resource. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
North-East Asian studies
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North-East Asian studies.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Transliteration and Mongolian Names -- Introduction -- 1. Prefiguring 1921 -- 2. Staging a Revolution -- 3. Landscape Re-Envisioned -- 4. Leftward Together -- 5. Society in Flux -- 6. Negotiating Faith -- 7. Life and its Value -- 8. The Great Opportunistic Repression -- 9. A Closer Union -- Appendix: Brief Biographies of Writers -- Index |
| Summary |
This study investigates the relationship between literature and politics during Mongolia's early revolutionary period. Between the 1921 socialist revolution and the first Writers' Congress, held in April 1948, the literary community constituted a key resource in the formation and implementation of policy. At the same time, debates within the party, discontent among the population, and questions of religion and tradition led to personal and ideological conflict among the intelligentsia and, in many cases, to trials and executions. Using primary texts, many of them translated into English for the first time, Simon Wickhamsmith shows the role played by the literary arts - poetry, fiction and drama - in the complex development of the "new society," helping to bring Mongolia's nomadic herding population into the utopia of equality, industrial progress and social well-being promised by the Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Politics and literature -- Mongolia -- History.
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Politics and literature. |
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Mongolia. |
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History. |
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Politics and literature -- Mongolia -- History -- 20th century.
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| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| Subject |
Mongolian literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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Literature: history and criticism. |
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Asian history. |
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Mongolian literature. |
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HISTORY -- Asia -- General. |
| Chronological Term |
1900-1999 |
| Indexed Term |
Mongolia. |
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culture. |
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literature. |
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politics. |
| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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| ISBN |
9789048535545 (electronic book) |
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9048535549 (electronic book) |
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