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03566aam a22004698i 4500 001 F9A5EFC608EC11E5A7E811F2DAD10320 003 SILO 005 20150602010155 008 140527s2015 nyu b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2014011654 020 $a 0231167687 (cloth : acid-free paper) 020 $a 9780231167680 (cloth : acid-free paper) 035 $a (OCoLC)880565935 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d YDXCP $d BTCTA $d BDX $d OCLCF $d MYG $d UKMGB $d ZCU $d COO $d TOH $d YHM $d YUS $d STF $d PUL $d OCL $d CHVBK $d I3U $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a a-cc--- 050 00 $a PL2419.H57 $b K56 2015 082 00 $a 895.13/509 $2 23 100 1 $a Kinkley, Jeffrey C., $d 1948- $e author. 245 10 $a Visions of dystopia in China's new historical novels / $c Jeffrey C. Kinkley. 263 $a 1409 264 1 $a New York : $b Columbia University Press, $c [2015]. 300 $a xvi, 285 pages ; $c 24cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 00 $t Conclusions : the end of history, dystopia, and "new" historical novels? $t Discomforts of temporal anomie -- $t Projections of historical repetition -- $t Alienation from the group -- $t Anarchy : social, moral, and cosmic -- $t Conclusions : the end of history, dystopia, and "new" historical novels? 520 $a The depiction of personal and collective suffering in modern Chinese novels differs significantly from standard Communist accounts and many Eastern and Western historical narratives. Writers such as Yu Hua, Su Tong, Wang Anyi, Mo Yan, Han Shaogong, Ge Fei, Li Rui, and Zhang Wei skew and scramble common conceptions of China's modern development, deploying avant-garde narrative techniques from Latin American and Euro-American modernism to project a surprisingly "un-Chinese" dystopian vision and critical view of human culture and ethics. The epic narratives of modern Chinese fiction make rich use of magical realism, surrealism, and unusual treatments of historical time. Also featuring graphic depictions of sex and violence, as well as dark, raunchy comedy, these novels reflect China's recent history re-presenting the overthrow of the monarchy in the early twentieth century and the resulting chaos of revolution and war; the recurring miseries perpetrated by class warfare during the dictatorship of Mao Zedong; and the social dislocations caused by China's industrialization and rise as a global power. This book casts China's highbrow historical novels from the late 1980s to the first decade of the twenty-first century as a distinctively Chinese contribution to the form of the global dystopian novel and, consequently, to global thinking about the interrelations of utopia and dystopia.--Book jacket. 650 0 $a Historical fiction, Chinese $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Chinese fiction $y 20th century $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Dystopias in literature. 650 7 $a LITERARY CRITICISM / General. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a Chinesisch. $0 (DE-588)4113214-2 $2 gnd 650 7 $a Historischer Roman. $0 (DE-588)4025132-9 $2 gnd 650 7 $a Anti-Utopie. $0 (DE-588)4202262-9 $2 gnd 650 7 $a Chinese fiction. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00857362 650 7 $a Dystopias in literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00900374 650 7 $a Historical fiction, Chinese. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00958020 648 7 $a 1900 - 1999 $2 fast 655 7 $a Criticism, interpretation, etc. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411635 941 $a 2 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20221018012859.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20201103020101.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=F9A5EFC608EC11E5A7E811F2DAD10320Initiate Another SILO Locator Search