Socialist Cosmopolitanism - The Chinese Literary Universe, 1945-1965

Klappentext Socialist Cosmopolitanism offers an innovative interpretation of literary works from the Mao era that reads Chinese socialist literature as world literature. Nicolai Volland demonstrates that Chinese socialist literature was not driven solely by politics but by an ambitious-but ultimately doomed-attempt to redraw the literary world map. Zusammenfassung Socialist Cosmopolitanism offers an innovative interpretation of literary works from the Mao era that reads Chinese socialist literature as world literature. Nicolai Volland demonstrates that Chinese socialist literature was not driven solely by politics but by an ambitious-but ultimately doomed-attempt to redraw the literary world map.

Product details

• Authors: Nicolai Volland, Volland Nicolai
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.03.2017
• EAN: 9780231183109
• ISBN: 978-0-231-18310-9
• No. of pages: 304
• Series: Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University; Studies of the Weatherhead Eas; Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Education, LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, LITERARY CRITICISM / Comparative Literature, LITERARY CRITICISM / Asian / Chinese, Chinese, Literary studies: general, Literary theory