In this Book
- Milestones on a Golden Road: Writing for Chinese Socialism, 1945-80
- Book
- 2013
- Published by: University of British Columbia Press
summary
In Milestones on a Golden Road, Richard King presents pivotal works of fiction published under the watchful eye of China's Communist regime between 1945 and 1980. Addressing questions of literary production, King looks at how writers dealt with shifting ideological demands, what indigenous and imported traditions inspired them, and how they were able to depict a utopian Communist future to their readers, even as the present took a very different turn. Early "red classics" were followed by works featuring increasingly lurid images of joyful socialism, and later by fiction exposing the Mao era as an age of irrationality, arbitrary rule, and suffering � a Golden Road that had led to nowhere.
Table of Contents
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- List of Illustrations
- pp. vii-viii
- Acknowledgments
- pp. ix-x
- Part 1: The War Years and the Search for Form, 1945-48
- Part 2: The Great Leap Forward and the Stuff of Heroism, 1959-62
- Part 3: The Cultural Revolution and the Spirit of Struggle, 1972-76
- Part 4: After Mao: Reversing Judgments, 1979-80
- Epilogue: A Golden Road to Nowhere
- pp. 198-209
- Bibliography
- pp. 253-265
Additional Information
ISBN
9780774823746
MARC Record
OCLC
824177585
Pages
296
Launched on MUSE
2016-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No