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Visions of Dystopia in China's New Historical Novels (Hardcover)
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Visions of Dystopia in China's New Historical Novels (Hardcover)
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The depiction of personal and collective suffering in modern
Chinese novels differs significantly from standard Communist
accounts and many Eastern and Western historical narratives.
Writers such as Yu Hua, Su Tong, Wang Anyi, Mo Yan, Han Shaogong,
Ge Fei, Li Rui, and Zhang Wei skew and scramble common conceptions
of China's modern development, deploying avant-garde narrative
techniques from Latin American and Euro-American modernism to
project a surprisingly "un-Chinese" dystopian vision and critical
view of human culture and ethics. The epic narratives of modern
Chinese fiction make rich use of magical realism, surrealism, and
unusual treatments of historical time. Also featuring graphic
depictions of sex and violence, as well as dark, raunchy comedy,
these novels reflect China's recent history re-presenting the
overthrow of the monarchy in the early twentieth century and the
resulting chaos of revolution and war; the recurring miseries
perpetrated by class warfare during the dictatorship of Mao Zedong;
and the social dislocations caused by China's industrialization and
rise as a global power. This book casts China's highbrow historical
novels from the late 1980s to the first decade of the twenty-first
century as a distinctively Chinese contribution to the form of the
global dystopian novel and, consequently, to global thinking about
the interrelations of utopia and dystopia.
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