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Informationen zum Autor Cai Xiang is Professor of Chinese Literature and Director of the Research Institute for Contemporary Literature at Shanghai University. Rebecca E. Karl is Associate Professor of History at New York University. She is the author of The Magic of Concepts: History and the Economic in Twentieth-Century China. Xueping Zhong is Professor of Chinese Literature and Culture at Tufts University and the author of Masculinity Besieged?: Issues of Modernity and Male Subjectivity in Chinese Literature of the Late Twentieth Century, also published by Duke University Press. Klappentext Published in China in 2010! Revolution and Its Narratives is a historical! literary! and critical account of the cultural production of the narratives of China's socialist revolution. Through theoretical! empirical! and textual analysis of major and minor novels! dramas! short stories! and cinema! Cai Xiang offers a complex study that exceeds the narrow confines of existing views of socialist aesthetics. By engaging with the relationship among culture! history! and politics in the context of the revolutionary transformation of Chinese society and arts! Cai illuminates the utopian promise as well as the ultimate impossibility of socialist cultural production. Translated! annotated! and edited by Rebecca E. Karl and Xueping Zhong! this translation presents Cai's influential work to English-language readers for the first time. Zusammenfassung Published in China in 2010 and appearing here in English for the first time! Revolution and its Narratives is a historical! literary! and critical account of the cultural production of the narratives of China's socialist revolution that illuminates the complexity of socialist art! culture! and politics. Inhaltsverzeichnis A Note on Translation vii Acknowledgments ix Introduction to the English Translation / Rebecca E. Karl and Xueping Zhong xi Introduction. Literature and Revolutionary China 1 1. The National/The Local: Conflict, Negotiation, and Capitulation in the Revolutionary Imagination 27 2. The Mobilization Structure: The Masses, Cadres, and Intellectuals 85 3. Youth, Love, "Natural Rights," and Sex 145 4. Renarrating the History of the Revolution: From Hero to Legend 189 5. Narratives of Labor or Labor Utopias 251 6. Technological Revolution and Narratives of Working-Class Subjectivity 307 7. Cultural Politics, or Political Cultural Conflicts, in the 1960s 357 8. Conclusion. The Crisis of Socialism and Efforts to Overcome It 403 Bibliography 433 Index 447...
