Wolf totem and the post-Mao utopian :: a Chinese perspective on contemporary western scholarship /

Wolf Totem' and the Post-Mao Utopian' by Li Xiaojiang explores the controversial best-selling novel by the political economist Jiang Rong as an allegory of utopia through discussion of an encyclopaedic range of scholarship in the humanities and social sciences that offer thinking on topics...

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Main Author: Li, Xiaojiang, 1951- (Author)
Other Authors: Gunn, Edward M. (Translator)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Chinese
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2018]
Series:East and West (Leiden, Netherlands) ; v. 3.
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Online Access:DE-862
DE-863
Summary:Wolf Totem' and the Post-Mao Utopian' by Li Xiaojiang explores the controversial best-selling novel by the political economist Jiang Rong as an allegory of utopia through discussion of an encyclopaedic range of scholarship in the humanities and social sciences that offer thinking on topics introduced in the novel. In promoting the significance of utopian thought, Li stresses that the term for her study,?post-utopian criticism,? is not the same as anti-utopian criticism, but an analytical approach to criticism in order to addresses the shortcomings of postmodern and postcolonial theories applied to contemporary China, and to open up interpretive space for the specific historical experience of its people and its utopian ideals.
Physical Description:1 online resource
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9789004276734
9004276734