Revolution and Form

Mao Dun's Early Novels and Chinese Literary Modernity
Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-90-04-36484-4
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 17, 346 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 880 g

Reihe: Ideas, History, and Modern China

In Revolution and Form, Jianhua Chen offers a detailed analysis of several early works by Mao Dun, focusing in particular on their engagement with themes of modernity and revolution, gender and desire. One of the leading authors of the early twentieth century May Fourth period, Mao Dun had a complicated relationship with both the Communist Party and the women’s liberation movement, and his fictional works reflect these twin concerns with revolution and gender. Chen’s study examines Mao Dun’s early fiction in relationship to the biographical and historical conditions under which it was produced.

Translated by Max Bohnenkamp, Todd Foley, FU Poshek, Nga Li LAM, LI Meng, and Carlos Rojas.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Chen, Jianhua

Rojas, Carlos

Weitere Mitwirkende

Rojas, Carlos

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Einzelne Autoren: Monographien & Biographien
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturen sonstiger Sprachräume Ost- & Südostasiatische Literatur

Über Autor(innen)

Jianhua Chen received his Ph.D. in Literature from Fudan University and Harvard University. Chen is currently Zhiyuan Professor at the School of Humanities, Shanghai Jiao Tong University. His recent publications include books and articles on revolution and literary modernity, popular literature, print culture, and cinema in modern and contemporary China.

Carlos Rojas, Ph.D. (2000), Columbia University, is Professor of Chinese Cultural Studies; Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies; and Arts of the Moving Image at Duke University. He has authored, edited, and translated many books on modern Chinese literature and culture, including Homesickness: Culture, Contagion, and National Transformation in Modern China (2015, Harvard University Press).