03282nam 2200685 a 450 991081852540332120240417053817.01-283-86477-00-7748-2374-710.59962/9780774823746(CKB)2550000000707417(EBL)3412829(SSID)ssj0001339681(PQKBManifestationID)11915153(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001339681(PQKBWorkID)11351311(PQKB)11186395(CEL)444834(OCoLC)824177585(CaBNVSL)slc00231397(MiAaPQ)EBC3412829(MdBmJHUP)muse49108(Au-PeEL)EBL3412829(CaPaEBR)ebr10634010(CaONFJC)MIL417727(OCoLC)923449416(DE-B1597)662202(DE-B1597)9780774823746(EXLCZ)99255000000070741720121228d2013 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrMilestones on a golden road[electronic resource] writing for Chinese socialism, 1945-80 /Richard King1st ed.Vancouver UBC Press20131 online resource (297 p.)Contemporary Chinese StudiesContemporary Chinese studies0-7748-2372-0 Includes bibliographical references and index.pt. 1. The war years and the search for form, 1945-48 -- pt. 2. The great leap forward and the stuff of heroism, 1959-62 -- pt. 3. The cultural revolution and the spirit of struggle, 1972-76 -- pt. 4. After Mao : reversing judgments, 1979-80.In Milestones on a Golden Road, Richard King presents pivotal works of fiction produced in four key periods of Chinese revolutionary history: the civil war (1945-49), the Great Leap Forward (1958-60), the Cultural Revolution (1966-76), and the post-Mao catharsis (1979-80). Taking its cues from the Soviet Union's optimistic depictions of a society liberated by Communism, the official Chinese literature of this era is characterized by grand narratives of progress. Addressing questions of literary production, King looks at how writers dealt with shifting ideological demands, what indigenous and imported traditions inspired them, and how they were able to depict a utopian Communist future to their readers, even as the present took a very different turn. Early "red classics" were followed by works featuring increasingly lurid images of joyful socialism, and later by fiction exposing the Mao era as an age of irrationality, arbitrary rule, and suffering � a Golden Road that had led to nowhere.Contemporary Chinese studies.Chinese literature20th centuryHistory and criticismSocialism in literatureChinaIn literatureChinese literatureHistory and criticism.Socialism in literature.895.1090052King Richard108858MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910818525403321Milestones on a golden road4026488UNINA