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Record Nr.

UNINA9910815182503321

Titolo

Words and their stories : essays on the language of the Chinese Revolution / / edited by Ban Wang

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden ; ; Boston, : Brill, 2011

ISBN

1-283-03956-7

9786613039569

90-04-18861-4

90-04-18860-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (352 p.)

Collana

Handbook of Oriental studies. Section four, China, , 0169-9520 ; ; v. 27 = Handbuch der orientalistik

Altri autori (Persone)

WangBan <1957->

Disciplina

951.04/2

951.042

Soggetti

Revolutions - China - History - 20th century

Revolutionaries - China - Language

Political culture - China - History - 20th century

Literature and revolutions - China - History - 20th century

Politics and literature - China - History - 20th century

Discourse analysis - Political aspects - China

China Politics and government 1949-1976 Terminology

China Politics and government 1912-1949 Terminology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preliminary Material / B. Wang -- Understanding The Chinese Revolution Through Words: An Introduction / Ban Wang -- 1. Revolution: From Literary Revolution To Revolutionary Literature / Jianhua Chen -- 2. The Long March / Enhua Zhang -- 3. Rectification: Party Discipline, Intellectual Remolding, And The Formation Of A Political Community / Kirk A. Denton -- 4. Worker-Peasant-Soldier Literature / Xiaomei Chen -- 5. Steel Is Made Through Persistent Tempering / Xinmin Liu -- 6. Socialist Realism / Ban Wang -- 7. Political Lyric / Xin Ning -- 8. Writing The Actual / Charles A. Laughlin -- 9. Nowhere In The World Does There Exist Love Or Hatred Without



Reason / Haiyan Lee -- 10. Promote Physical Culture And Sport, Improve The People’s Constitution / Xiaoning Lu -- 11. Typical People In Typical Circumstances / Richard King -- 12. Use The Past To Serve The Present; The Foreign To Serve China / Tina Mai Chen -- 13. Women Can Hold Up Half The Sky / Xueping Zhong -- 14. Let A Hundred Flowers Blossom, Let A Hundred Schools Of Thought Contend / Richard Kraus -- 15. They Love Battle Array, Not Silks And Satins / Tina Mai Chen -- 16. The Three Prominences / Yizhong Gu -- 17. Revolutionary Narrative In The Seventeen Years Period / Guo Bingru -- Bibliography / B. Wang -- Index / B. Wang.

Sommario/riassunto

As China joins the capitalist world economy, the problems of social disintegration that gave rise to the earlier revolutionary social movements are becoming pressing. Instead of viewing the Chinese Revolution as an academic study, these essays suggest that the motifs of the Revolution are still alive and relevant. The slogan “Farewell to Revolution” that obscures the revolutionary language is premature. In spite of dislocations and ruptures in the revolutionary language, to rethink this discourse is to revisit a history in terms of sedimented layers of linguistic meanings and political aspirations. Earlier meanings of revolutionary words may persist or coexist with non-revolutionary rivals. Recovery of the vital uses of key revolutionary words proffers critical alternatives in which contemporary capitalist myths can be contested.