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The Subplot - What China Is Reading and Why It Matters (Paperback)
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The Subplot - What China Is Reading and Why It Matters (Paperback)
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What does contemporary China's diverse and exciting fiction tell us
about its culture, and the relationship between art and politics?
The Subplot takes us on a lively journey through a literary
landscape like you've never seen before: a vast migrant-worker
poetry movement, homoerotic romances by "rotten girls," swaggering
literary popstars, millionaire e-writers churning out the
longest-ever novels, underground comics, the surreal works of Yu
Hua, Yan Lianke, and Nobel laureate Mo Yan, and what is widely
hailed as a golden age of Chinese science fiction. Chinese online
fiction is now the largest publishing platform in the world. Fueled
by her passionate engagement with Chinese literature and culture,
Megan Walsh, a brilliant young critic, shows us why it's important
to finally pay attention to Chinese fiction-an exuberant drama that
illustrates the complex relationship between art and politics, one
that is increasingly shaping the West as well. Turns out, writers
write neither what their government nor foreign readers want or
expect, and they work on a different wavelength to keep alive ideas
and events that are either overlooked or off limits. The Subplot
vividly captures the ways in which literature offers an
alternative-perhaps truer-understanding of the contradictions that
make up China itself.
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