Questioning the Chinese Model - Oppositional Political Novels in Early Twenty-First Century China (Hardcover)

In the early twenty-first century, the Chinese literary world saw an emergence of fictional works - dubbed as "oppositional political novels" - that took political articulation as their major purpose and questioned the fundamental principles and intrinsic logic of the Chinese model. Based on close readings of five representative oppositional Chinese political novels, Questioning the Chinese Model examines the sociopolitical connotations and epistemological values of these novels in the broad context of modern Chinese intellectual history and contemporary Chinese politics and society. Zhansui Yu provides a sketch of the social, political, and intellectual landscape of present-day China. He investigates the dialectic relationship between the arts and politics in the Chinese context, the mechanisms and dynamics of censorship in the age of the Internet and commercialization, and the ideological limitations of oppositional Chinese political novels. In the process of textual and social analysis, Yu extensively cites Western political philosophers, such as Hannah Arendt, Antonio Gramsci, Michel Foucault, and references well-regarded studies on Chinese literature, politics, society, and the Chinese intelligentsia. Examining oppositional Chinese political novels from multiple perspectives, Questioning the Chinese Model applies a broad range of knowledge beyond merely the literary field.

General

Imprint:	University of Toronto Press
Country of origin:	Canada
Release date:	March 2023
First published:	2022
Authors:	Zhansui Yu
Dimensions:	235 x 159 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	266
ISBN-13:	978-1-4875-4434-8
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > General Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > General Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Area / regional studies > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Ethnic studies > Black studies Promotions
LSN:	1-4875-4434-0
Barcode:	9781487544348

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