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Author Chen, Jianhua, 1947- author.

Title Revolution and form : Mao Dun's early novels and Chinese literary modernity / by Jianhua Chen ; edited by Carlos Rojas ; translated by Max Bohnenkamp, Todd Foley, Fu Poshek, Nga Li Lam, Li Meng, and Carlos Rojas
Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2018]
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Description 1 online resource (xi, 346 pages)
Series Ideas, history, and modern China ; volume 17
Ideas, history, and modern China ; v. 17.
Contents The preconception of the modernity of fictional form -- Fictional form and totality -- "Revolution plus love" and imagining women in the public sphere -- The eclipse trilogy: female bodies in a mirrored framework of time -- Zhang Qiuliu: the double displacement of city and revolution -- "Creation": the figure of the modern woman and revolutionary public space -- Rainbow: coming of age and the modern epic novel -- Breasts and the revolutionary utopian fantasy
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Mao, Dun, 1896-1981 -- Criticism and interpretation
SUBJECT Mao, Dun, 1896-1981 fast
Subject LITERARY CRITICISM -- Asian -- General.
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
Author Rojas, Carlos, 1970- translator.
LC no. 2018028956
ISBN 9789004364851
9004364854
Other Titles Ge ming yu xing shi. English
Mao Dun's early novels and Chinese literary modernity