Developmental Fairy Tales

Andrew F. Jones is Professor of Chinese at the University of California, Berkeley.

出版者:Harvard University Press

作者:Andrew F. Jones

页数:272

出版时间:2011-5-2

价格:USD 52.50

装帧:Hardcover

isbn号码:9780674047952

图书标签:海外中国研究Andrew_Jones进化论发展主义人类学海外汉学文学研究文化

In 1992 Deng Xiaoping famously declared, "Development is the only hard imperative." What ensued was the transformation of China from a socialist state to a capitalist market economy. The spirit of development has since become the prevailing creed of the People's Republic, helping to bring about unprecedented modern prosperity, but also creating new forms of poverty, staggering social upheaval, physical dislocation, and environmental destruction. In Developmental Fairy Tales, Andrew Jones asserts that the groundwork for this recent transformation was laid in the late nineteenth century, with the translation of the evolutionary works of Lamarck, Darwin, and Spencer into Chinese letters. He traces the ways that the evolutionary narrative itself evolved into a form of vernacular knowledge which dissolved the boundaries between beast and man and reframed childhood development as a recapitulation of civilizational ascent, through which a beleaguered China might struggle for existence and claim a place in the modern world-system. This narrative left an indelible imprint on China's literature and popular media, from children's primers to print culture, from fairy tales to filmmaking. Jones's analysis offers an innovative and interdisciplinary angle of vision on China's cultural evolution. He focuses especially on China's foremost modern writer and public intellectual, Lu Xun, in whose work the fierce contradictions of his generation's developmentalist aspirations became the stuff of pedagogical parable. Developmental Fairy Tales revises our understanding of literature's role in the making of modern China by revising our understanding of developmentalism's role in modern Chinese literature.

读后感

哪里能买到这本书呢 电子版或纸质都可以 或者谁愿意转让这本书吗 我着急想看 急求！ Introduction: P12: Lu Xun’s affinity for the parable was closely related to his lifelong interest in and advocacy for children’s literature. P14: As a collective enterprise, t...

哪里能买到这本书呢 电子版或纸质都可以 或者谁愿意转让这本书吗 我着急想看 急求！ Introduction: P12: Lu Xun’s affinity for the parable was closely related to his lifelong interest in and advocacy for children’s literature. P14: As a collective enterprise, t...

哪里能买到这本书呢 电子版或纸质都可以 或者谁愿意转让这本书吗 我着急想看 急求！ Introduction: P12: Lu Xun’s affinity for the parable was closely related to his lifelong interest in and advocacy for children’s literature. P14: As a collective enterprise, t...

哪里能买到这本书呢 电子版或纸质都可以 或者谁愿意转让这本书吗 我着急想看 急求！ Introduction: P12: Lu Xun’s affinity for the parable was closely related to his lifelong interest in and advocacy for children’s literature. P14: As a collective enterprise, t...

哪里能买到这本书呢 电子版或纸质都可以 或者谁愿意转让这本书吗 我着急想看 急求！ Introduction: P12: Lu Xun’s affinity for the parable was closely related to his lifelong interest in and advocacy for children’s literature. P14: As a collective enterprise, t...

用户评价

难为他想得出来！鬼才！

很有灵气的研究者，大家都爱鲁迅，虽然他也不能说服我关于动物和小孩的问题

抓住“发展“作为晚清至新中国时期的关键词，将鲁迅小说放回到进化论在印刷文化中普及与流播的过程，以处于发展临界点（野蛮/文明，人与兽）并承载国家/民族发展厚望的儿童为切入点，穿梭在儿童读物，童话，小说，电影，画报等各类文本中，尤其注重叙述结构/形式，不仅揭示鲁迅进化论思想的不确定，而且将孩子作为一种历史化分析视角细致且清晰地提出来。

Intriguing in many counts, but sadly not really one's field of interest. Although the introduction merits further reading.

摘：晚清时的幻想小说既在进化论模式下区分野蛮与文明，无比期待中国的文明化，又无法为中国找到现实的发展道路，因此，故事如同奇想，故事中的国家与人物在昏睡中一朝醒来，就“进化”到了彻底的乌托邦。 书太难找了，零碎凑章节导论看完的………