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.

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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

探究鲁迅写作中的儿童形象，如何渗透了一种进化论的意识，成为与国家民族的未来和命运紧密关联的客体。

入手角度很小，发散地开。就是章与章之间的逻辑略含混，last chapter最有力度。

用发展的话语来看问题，突然一切就理得顺了。但是又不免有点悲哀，因为直到“素质教育”，到杜拉拉，也都是同样的话语啊。中国近代知识分子对于童话的看法和托尔金的“On Fairy Stories"相比对，也是个非常值得研究的问题。

视角独特的海外汉学著作，可别被标题唬住了，绝不是童话那么简单

文本细读和大框架的勾勒都很精彩。一个疑问是在进化论的主导叙述之外，文本中多样的时间感与当时其他西学思潮的关联。琼斯强调鲁迅叙事形式的recursivity，也提到了永恒回归的概念，但没有进一步阐述尼采对其的影响，乃至其他关于时间的论述如何与进化论时间观发生互动。