LEADER 02196oam 2200421 450 001 9910520085803321 005 20230912093759.0 010 $a9789811665189$b(electronic bk.) 010 $z9789811665172 035 $a(OCoLC)1396762724 035 $a(MiFhGG)GVRL57P1 035 $a(EXLCZ)9920443703100041 100 $a20230905h20212021 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurun|---uuuua 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 12$aA novel approach to China $ewhat China debaters can learn from contemporary Chinese novelists /$fGengsong Gao 210 1$aSingapore :$cPalgrave Macmillan,$d[2021] 210 4$dİ2021 215 $a1 online resource (xxvii, 233 pages) 225 0 $aGale eBooks 311 08$aPrint version: Gao, Gengsong A Novel Approach to China Singapore : Springer Singapore Pte. Limited,c2022 9789811665172 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $a1. 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. 330 $aThis 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. 606 $aChinese fiction$xHistory and criticism 607 $aChina$xLiterature 607 $aChina$xPolitics and government 615 0$aChinese fiction$xHistory and criticism. 676 $a895.13009 700 $aGao$b Gengsong$01074720 801 0$bMiFhGG 801 1$bMiFhGG 912 $a9910520085803321 996 $aA Novel Approach to China$92581417 997 $aUNINA