02196oam 2200421 450 991052008580332120230912093759.09789811665189(electronic bk.)9789811665172(OCoLC)1396762724(MiFhGG)GVRL57P1(EXLCZ)992044370310004120230905h20212021 uy 0engurun|---uuuuatxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierA novel approach to China what China debaters can learn from contemporary Chinese novelists /Gengsong GaoSingapore :Palgrave Macmillan,[2021]©20211 online resource (xxvii, 233 pages)Gale eBooksPrint version: Gao, Gengsong A Novel Approach to China Singapore : Springer Singapore Pte. Limited,c2022 9789811665172 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.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.Chinese fictionHistory and criticismChinaLiteratureChinaPolitics and governmentChinese fictionHistory and criticism.895.13009Gao Gengsong1074720MiFhGGMiFhGG9910520085803321A Novel Approach to China2581417UNINA