Milestones on a Golden Road: Writing for Chinese Socialism, 1945-80

Milestones on a Golden Road: Writing for Chinese Socialism, 1945-80
ISBN-10
0774823747
ISBN-13
9780774823746
Category
History
Pages
296
Language
English
Published
2013-01-15
Publisher
UBC Press
Author
Richard King

Description

In Milestones on a Golden Road, Richard King discusses pivotal works of fiction published under the watchful eye of China’s Communist regime between 1945 and 1980. Addressing questions of literary production, King looks at how writers dealt with shifting ideological demands, what indigenous and imported traditions inspired them, and how they were able to depict a utopian Communist future to their readers, as the present took a very different turn. Early “red classics” were followed by works featuring increasingly lurid images of joyful socialism, and later by fiction exposing the Mao era as an age of irrationality, arbitrary rule, and suffering – a Golden Road that had led to nowhere.

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