Modernity with a Cold War Face: Reimagining the Nation in Chinese Literature Across the 1949 Divide

Xiaojue Wang

ISBN 10: 0674726723 / ISBN 13: 9780674726727

Edité par Harvard University, Asia Center, 2013

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The 1949 birth of the People's Republic of China divided the nation into many political entities, displacing millions. Examining a body of understudied literary and cultural output in mainland China and elsewhere after World War II, the author investigates how writers responded to these shifts to shape a new Chinese subjectivity in their works. Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs. Num Pages: 408 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 160 x 228 x 29. Weight in Grams: 674. . 2013. 1st Edition. Hardcover. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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• Titre: Modernity with a Cold War Face: Reimagining the Nation in Chinese Literature Across the 1949 Divide
• Éditeur: Harvard University, Asia Center
• Date de parution: 2013
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0674726723
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780674726727
• Reliure: Couverture rigide
• État de l'article: New

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Synopsis

The year 1949 witnessed China divided into multiple political and cultural entities. How did this momentous shift affect Chinese literary topography? Modernity with a Cold War Face examines the competing, converging, and conflicting modes of envisioning a modern nation in mid-twentieth century Chinese literature. Bridging the 1949 divide in both literary historical periodization and political demarcation, Xiaojue Wang proposes a new framework to consider Chinese literature beyond national boundaries, as something arising out of the larger global geopolitical and cultural conflict of the Cold War.

Examining a body of heretofore understudied literary and cultural production in mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and overseas during a crucial period after World War II, Wang traces how Chinese writers collected artistic fragments, blended feminist and socialist agendas, constructed ambivalent stances toward colonial modernity and an imaginary homeland, translated foreign literature to shape a new Chinese subjectivity, and revisited the classics for a new time. Reflecting historical reality in fictional terms, their work forged a path toward multiple modernities as they created alternative ways of connection, communication, and articulation to uncover and undermine Cold War dichotomous antagonism.

À propos de l?auteur

Xiaojue Wang is Assistant Professor of Chinese Literature and Culture at the University of Pennsylvania.