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Record Nr.

UNINA9910520085803321

Autore

Gao Gengsong

Titolo

A novel approach to China : what China debaters can learn from contemporary Chinese novelists / / Gengsong Gao

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Singapore : , : Palgrave Macmillan, , [2021]

©2021

ISBN

9789811665189

9789811665172

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xxvii, 233 pages)

Collana

Gale eBooks

Disciplina

895.13009

Soggetti

Chinese fiction - History and criticism

China Literature

China Politics and government

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. Introduction : post-Tiananmen intellectual debate and literature -- 2. Discussion on pure literature and postsocialist Chinese literary thought -- 3. Han Shaogong : revealing and revising Chinese linguistic background -- 4. Wang Xiaobo : work through power, discourse and subject formation -- 5. Chen Zhongshi : disclosing an enchanted local everyday Confucian world -- 6. Conclusion : toward dialogical Chinese studies.

Sommario/riassunto

This book explores Chinese novelists' distinctive contributions to the China debate in terms of the key issues of Chinese language, power dynamics and Confucian tradition. It argues that, by dramatizing the diversities of ordinary social actors' everyday languages, active discursive practices and local traditions, Chinese novelists provide new ways of understanding modern China.