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Socialist Cosmopolitanism: The Chinese Literary Universe, 1945-1965
Nicolai Volland
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Hardback. Series: Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: 2GDC; DSA; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152. .
Socialist Cosmopolitanism offers an innovative interpretation of literary works from the Mao era that reads Chinese socialist literature as world literature. As Nicolai Volland demonstrates, after 1949 China engaged with the world beyond its borders in a variety of ways and on many levels-politically, economically, and culturally. Far from rejecting the worldliness of earlier eras, the young People's Republic developed its own cosmopolitanism. Rather than a radical break with the past, Chinese socialist literature should be seen as an integral and important chapter in China's long search to find a place within world literature. Socialist Cosmopolitanism revisits a range of ... Read more
Socialist Cosmopolitanism offers an innovative interpretation of literary works from the Mao era that reads Chinese socialist literature as world literature. As Nicolai Volland demonstrates, after 1949 China engaged with the world beyond its borders in a variety of ways and on many levels-politically, economically, and culturally. Far from rejecting the worldliness of earlier eras, the young People's Republic developed its own cosmopolitanism. Rather than a radical break with the past, Chinese socialist literature should be seen as an integral and important chapter in China's long search to find a place within world literature. Socialist Cosmopolitanism revisits a range of ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Series
Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
Condition
New
Weight
28g
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231183109
SKU
V9780231183109
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About Nicolai Volland
Nicolai Volland is assistant professor of Chinese and comparative literature at the Pennsylvania State University.
Reviews for Socialist Cosmopolitanism: The Chinese Literary Universe, 1945-1965
Nicolai Volland has tackled one of the most provocative issues in modern Chinese and world literature. Chinese socialist literature from the 1940s to the eve of the Great Cultural Revolution has for decades been interpreted solely in terms of propaganda. Volland argues for a more comprehensive understanding of its conception, production, circulation, and reception. Through the prism of socialist cosmopolitanism, ... Read more