| Description |
1 online resource : illustrations |
| Series |
Chinese literature and culture in the world |
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Chinese literature and culture in the world.
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| Contents |
Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: The writing and rewriting of an exemplary shouchaoben: Zhang Yangs The Second Handshake during the Cultural Revolution -- Chapter 3: Texts on travel: stability across variation and secondary authorship in espionage shouchaoben fiction -- Chapter 4: Shouchaoben as literary avant-garde: Open Love Letters and Waves -- Chapter 5: Ways of reading: Cultural Revolution reading acts -- Chapter 6: World literature and intertextuality: reading acts in shouchaoben fiction -- Chapter 7: From underground into the mainstream: shouchaoben fiction on the commercial book market -- Chapter 8: Conclusion: Shouchaoben fiction as texts in motion |
| Summary |
This book investigates handwritten entertainment fiction (shouchaoben wenxue) which circulated clandestinely during the Chinese Cultural Revolution. Lena Henningsens analyses of exemplary stories and their variation across different manuscript copies brings to light the creativity of these readers-turned-copyists. Through copying, readers modified the stories and became secondary authors who reflected on the realities of the Cultural Revolution. Through an enquiry into actual reading practices as mapped in autobiographical accounts and into intertextual references within the stories, the book also positions manuscript fiction within the larger reading cosmos of the long 1970s. Henningsen analyzes the production, circulation and consumption of these texts, considering continuities across the alleged divide of the end of the Mao-era and the beginning of the reform period. The book further reveals how these texts achieved fruitful afterlives as re-published bestsellers or as adaptations into comic books or movies, continuing to shape the minds of their audience and the imaginations of the past. Chapter 5 is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (ProQuest Ebook Central, viewed December 1, 2021) |
| Subject |
Chinese fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism
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Underground literature -- China -- 20th century -- History and criticism
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Chinese fiction
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Underground literature
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| SUBJECT |
China -- History -- Cultural Revolution, 1966-1976.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85024126
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| Subject |
China
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9783030733834 |
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3030733831 |
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