Lena Henningsen

Broschiertes Buch

Cultural Revolution Manuscripts

Unofficial Entertainment Fiction from 1970s China

Beschreibung

This book investigates handwritten entertainment fiction (shouchaoben wenxue) which circulated clandestinely during the Chinese Cultural Revolution. Lena Henningsen's analyses of exemplary stories and their variation across different manuscript copies brings to light the creativity of these readers-turned-copyists. Through copying, readers modified the stories and became secondary authors who reflected on the realities of the Cultural Revolution. Through an enquiry into actual reading practices as mapped in autobiographical accounts and into intertextual references within the stories, the book also positions manuscript fiction within the larger reading cosmos of the long 1970s. Henningsen analyzes the production, circulation and consumption of these texts, considering continuities across the alleged divide of the end of the Mao-era and the beginning of the reform period. The book further reveals how these texts achieved fruitful afterlives as re-published bestsellers or as adaptations into comic books or movies, continuing to shape the minds of their audience and the imaginations of the past.

Chapter 5 is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.

Autor

Lena Henningsen is Professor at the University of Freiburg, Germany. As a specialist of twentieth- and twenty-first-century Chinese literature, she has published widely on popular literature, reading culture and consumer culture in the People's Republic of China. Her research has been supported by, among others, the European Research Council and the German Young Academy.

Produktdetails

• Chinese Literature and Culture in the World
• Verlag: H2020 European Research Council / Palgrave Macmillan / Springer International Publishing / Springer,
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-3-030-73385-8
• 1st edition 2021
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Oktober 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 210mm x 148mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 396g
• ISBN-13: 9783030733858
• ISBN-10: 3030733858
• Artikelnr.: 65690114

Rezensionen

"Cultural Revolution Manuscripts is an admirable and highly readable book. ... Particularly valuable are her comparisons of variant forms ... ." (Richard King, MCLC, Modern Chinese Literature & Culture, February, 2022)