LEADER 04091nam 2200637 a 450 001 9910461140303321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-674-06103-9 024 7 $a10.4159/harvard.9780674061033 035 $a(CKB)2670000000095270 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10477348 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000521993 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11913736 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000521993 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10522796 035 $a(PQKB)11329243 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3300943 035 $a(DE-B1597)178234 035 $a(OCoLC)733048558 035 $a(OCoLC)840439936 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780674061033 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3300943 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10477348 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000095270 100 $a20101029d2011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aDevelopmental fairy tales$b[electronic resource] $eevolutionary thinking and modern Chinese culture /$fAndrew F. Jones 210 $aCambridge, Mass. $cHarvard University Press$d2011 215 $a1 online resource (268 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-674-04795-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aThe "development" of modern Chinese literature -- The iron house of narrative: Lu Xun and the late Qing fiction of evolutionary adventure -- Inherit the wolf: Lu Xun, natural history, and narrative form -- The child as history in republican China: a discourse on development -- Playthings of history -- A narrow cage: Eroshenko, Lu Xun, and the modern Chinese fairy tale. 330 $aIn 1992 Deng Xiaoping famously declared, "Development is the only hard imperative." What ensued was the transformation of China from a socialist state to a capitalist market economy. The spirit of development has since become the prevailing creed of the People's Republic, helping to bring about unprecedented modern prosperity, but also creating new forms of poverty, staggering social upheaval, physical dislocation, and environmental destruction.In Developmental Fairy Tales, Andrew Jones asserts that the groundwork for this recent transformation was laid in the late nineteenth century, with the translation of the evolutionary works of Lamarck, Darwin, and Spencer into Chinese letters. He traces the ways that the evolutionary narrative itself evolved into a form of vernacular knowledge which dissolved the boundaries between beast and man and reframed childhood development as a recapitulation of civilizational ascent, through which a beleaguered China might struggle for existence and claim a place in the modern world-system.This narrative left an indelible imprint on China's literature and popular media, from children's primers to print culture, from fairy tales to filmmaking. Jones's analysis offers an innovative and interdisciplinary angle of vision on China's cultural evolution. He focuses especially on China's foremost modern writer and public intellectual, Lu Xun, in whose work the fierce contradictions of his generation's developmentalist aspirations became the stuff of pedagogical parable. Developmental Fairy Tales revises our understanding of literature's role in the making of modern China by revising our understanding of developmentalism's role in modern Chinese literature. 606 $aChinese literature$xHistory and criticism 606 $aLiterature and society$zChina 606 $aFairy tales$zChina$xHistory and criticism 606 $aModernism (Literature)$zChina 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aChinese literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aLiterature and society 615 0$aFairy tales$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aModernism (Literature) 676 $a895.1/09355 700 $aJones$b Andrew F$0667960 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910461140303321 996 $aDevelopmental fairy tales$92371938 997 $aUNINA