Postmodernism and Contemporary Chinese Avant-Garde Fiction

This book examines the work of a group of young avant garde fiction writers who emerged on the Chinese literary scene from the mid-1980s onwards. Exhibiting strategies of anti-mainstream, anti-paradigmatic discourse these writers debunked the traditional literary conventions of a hitherto very closed Chinese society.

List of contents

1. Introduction 2. Fiction as Artifact 3. The Postmodern Metafictive Strategy 4. Re-Envisioning China's Past 5. Carnivalization of Language 6. Conclusions

About the author

Yongchun Cai is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Translation at the Chinese University Hong Kong.

Summary

This book examines the work of a group of young avant garde fiction writers who emerged on the Chinese literary scene from the mid-1980s onwards. Exhibiting strategies of anti-mainstream, anti-paradigmatic discourse these writers debunked the traditional literary conventions of a hitherto very closed Chinese society.

Product details

• Authors: Yongchun Cai, Yongchun (Macau University of Science and Tec Cai, Yongchun (Macau University of Science and Technology) Cai, Cai Yongchun
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 31.12.2025
• EAN: 9780415823388
• ISBN: 978-0-415-82338-8
• No. of pages: 240
• Series: Routledge Contemporary China Series; Routledge Contemporary China Series
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); Asia, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies, LITERARY CRITICISM / Asian / Chinese, Regional Studies, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Regional / International studies, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General