Y. Huang

Contemporary Chinese Literature

From the Cultural Revolution to the Future

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Produktbeschreibung

This book offers a case study of four of the most influential contemporary Chinese writers and 'cultural bastards' - Duoduo, an underground 'misty' poet; Wang Shuo, a 'hooligan' writer; Zhang Chengzhi, an old 'Red Guard' and new 'cultural heretic'; and Wang Xiaobo, a chronicler of Rabelaisian modern history.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan UK / Palgrave Macmillan
• 2007 edition
• Seitenzahl: 219
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. April 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 299g
• ISBN-13: 9781349538409
• ISBN-10: 134953840X
• Artikelnr.: 45081932

Autorenporträt

YIBING HUANG is Associate Professor of Chinese at Connecticut College, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Rethinking the Legacy of the Cultural Revolution Duo Duo: An Impossible Farewell
or
Exile between Revolution and Modernism Wang Shuo: Playing for Thrills in the Era of Reform
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A Genealogy of the Present Zhang Chengzhi: Striving for Alternative National Forms
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Old Red Guard and New Cultural Heretic Wang Xiaobo: From "Golden Age" to "Silver Age
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Writing Against the Gravity of History Revising a Double-Faced Chinese Modernity

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Rethinking the Legacy of the Cultural Revolution Duo Duo: An Impossible Farewell, or, Exile between Revolution and Modernism Wang Shuo: Playing for Thrills in the Era of Reform, or, A Genealogy of the Present Zhang Chengzhi: Striving for Alternative National Forms, or, Old Red Guard and New Cultural Heretic Wang Xiaobo: From "Golden Age" to "Silver Age," or, Writing Against the Gravity of History Revising a Double-Faced Chinese Modernity

Rezensionen

'Taking a close look at Chinese literature in the post Cultural Revolution period as well as the era of economic takeoff, Huang deploys a very ingenious and provocative trope, that of the orphan pairing up with the bastard. Highlighting the self-contradictory nature and crisis-ridden search in writers such as Duo Duo, Wang Shuo, Zhang Chengzhi, and Wang Xiaobo, Huang's work is a comprehensive study of culturally orphaned and politically rebellious generations in search of their voice and identity.' - Ban Wang, Stanford University