The Politics of Cultural Capital: China's Quest for a Nobel Prize in Literature

Contents

con t en ts Acknowledgments vii Prologue 1 chapter one Introduction: Diagnosing the Complex 3 chapter two The Nobel Prize for Literature: Philosophy and Practice 41 chapter three Ideas of Authorship and the Nobel Prize in China, 1900–1976 73 chapter four China’s Search for a Nobel Prize in Literature, 1979–2000 107 chapter five The Nobel Prize, 2000 163 Afterword 185 Notes 187 Glossary of Chinese Terms 223 Bibliography 225 Index 241 ...