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 and the author of Mao Zedong and China in the Twentieth-Century World: A Concise History, also published by Duke University Press.
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.
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.
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"Cai Xiang is a self-reflexive and capacious thinker. His dialectical approach to unresolvable tensions and contradictions within Chinese socialism is extremely valuable for scholars who take the lived experience of socialism seriously. This timely translation will help English-language readers reassess their received views about China's socialist past and its postsocialist present, allowing them to better appreciate why conflicting stories about the Chinese revolution continue to shape China's self-understanding and its position in the world."
(Lydia H. Liu, author of The Clash of Empires: The Invention of China in Modern World Making)
"A groundbreaking study, Revolution and Its Narratives presents a series of sympathetic and penetrating analyses that helps us better understand the cultural and social legacies underlying contemporary China. Since its publication in 2010, Cai Xiang's book has been widely recognized as a landmark achievement in Chinese socialist culture and history scholarship. This timely translation ought to have a deep impact on the study of modern China in the English-language world."
(Xiaobing Tang, author of Visual Culture in Contemporary China: Paradigms and Shifts)
發表於2024-06-26
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評分蔡翔在他的新書《革命/敘述》導言中談到瞭關於社會主義革命(尤其是土改階段)的“暴力”問題。對於當前一種齣於人道主義的有關“暴力”的道德批判,他針鋒相對地說: 當批評者麵對反抗者的暴力時,“人道主義”總是適時地齣現;可是,當他們麵對壓迫者的暴力時,要麼充耳不聞...
評分蔡翔在他的新書《革命/敘述》導言中談到瞭關於社會主義革命(尤其是土改階段)的“暴力”問題。對於當前一種齣於人道主義的有關“暴力”的道德批判,他針鋒相對地說: 當批評者麵對反抗者的暴力時,“人道主義”總是適時地齣現;可是,當他們麵對壓迫者的暴力時,要麼充耳不聞...
圖書標籤: 海外中國研究 文學研究 英語 文化研究 當代中國 域外漢學 曆史2 共和國
It does much to jargonize & artificially complicate a set of shifting historical, social and political conditions #壹柒讀#027#SOAS
評分It does much to jargonize & artificially complicate a set of shifting historical, social and political conditions #壹柒讀#027#SOAS
評分It does much to jargonize & artificially complicate a set of shifting historical, social and political conditions #壹柒讀#027#SOAS
評分It does much to jargonize & artificially complicate a set of shifting historical, social and political conditions #壹柒讀#027#SOAS
評分It does much to jargonize & artificially complicate a set of shifting historical, social and political conditions #壹柒讀#027#SOAS
Revolution and Its Narratives 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載