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Published in China in 2010, Revolution and Its Narratives is a historical, literary, and critical account of the cultural production of the narratives of China's socialist revolution. Through theoretical, empirical, and textual analysis of major and minor novels, dramas, short stories, and cinema, Cai Xiang offers a complex study that exceeds the narrow confines of existing views of socialist aesthetics. By engaging with the relationship among culture, history, and politics in the context of the revolutionary transformation of Chinese society and arts, Cai illuminates the utopian promise as well as the ultimate impossibility of socialist cultural production. Translated, annotated, and edited by Rebecca E. Karl and Xueping Zhong, this translation presents Cai's influential work to English-language readers for the first time.
Contents
A Note on Translation vii
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction to the English Translation / Rebecca E. Karl and Xueping Zhong xi
Introduction. Literature and Revolutionary China 1
1. The National/The Local: Conflict, Negotiation, and Capitulation in the Revolutionary Imagination 27
2. The Mobilization Structure: The Masses, Cadres, and Intellectuals 85
3. Youth, Love, "Natural Rights," and Sex 145
4. Renarrating the History of the Revolution: From Hero to Legend 189
5. Narratives of Labor or Labor Utopias 251
6. Technological Revolution and Narratives of Working-Class Subjectivity 307
7. Cultural Politics, or Political Cultural Conflicts, in the 1960s 357
8. Conclusion. The Crisis of Socialism and Efforts to Overcome It 403
Bibliography 433
Index 447
