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A History of Contemporary Chinese Literature (Hardcover)
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A History of Contemporary Chinese Literature (Hardcover)
Series: Brill's Humanities in China Library, 1
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This groundbreaking book by the eminent Peking University professor
Hong Zicheng covers the literary scene in China during the
1949-1999 period, primarily focusing on fiction, poetry, drama, and
prose writing. Reprinted sixteen times since its publication in the
PRC in 1999 it is now available in English translation at last. The
first section of the book deals with the 1949-1976 period. Often
derided and ignored as an arid era for literature by both Chinese
and overseas critics, Professor Hong describes the literature that
was popular and officially acceptable at the time, and the cultural
policies and political campaigns that shaped the tastes of readers
and the literary creativity of writers during the period. This part
of the book is remarkable for Professor Hong's candidness and
open-mindedness, qualities that would have made this text difficult
to publish at an earlier date in China. Furthermore, the platform
that the first part of the text provides renders the second part
even more understandable to readers unfamiliar with the post-1976
literary scene - and offers new insights to those who are familiar
with it - demonstrating as it does the close links between the two
distinctive eras. These links are provided by the resumption of
literary traditions that had been more-or-less abandoned during the
preceding ten-year period, as well as reactions against literature
nurtured and guided by the state cultural apparatus. The second
part of the book consists of a comprehensive description of
developments - and insightful explanations of those developments -
in the literary arts and literary criticism since 1976. A unique
and much needed accomplishment in contemporary literary studies.
Also available in paperback.
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