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
Cai Xiang is Professor of Chinese Literature and Director of the Research Institute for Contemporary Literature at Shanghai University. Rebecca E. Karl is Associate Professor of History at New York University. She is the author of The Magic of Concepts: History and the Economic in Twentieth-Century China. Xueping Zhong is Professor of Chinese Literature and Culture at Tufts University and the author of Masculinity Besieged?: Issues of Modernity and Male Subjectivity in Chinese Literature of the Late Twentieth Century, also published by Duke University Press.
"Cai Xiang's study of socialist literary and cultural imaginaries,
originally published in 2010, is one of the most provocative books
on post-1949 Chinese literature and culture appearing in Chinese
since the beginning of the new century. Its English version,
Revolution and Its Narratives, brilliantly edited and meticulously
translated by Rebecca E. Karl and Xueping Zhong, makes a
significant and timely contribution to ongoing debates about the
cultural-political legacies of revolutionary China."
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"Revolution and Its Narratives contains numerous original insights,
based on a wealth of readings of both classics of the 1950s and
1960s and many lesser-known works. It covers a wide range of topics
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cultural production of the 1950s and 1960s. Cai’s superb
sensibility to theory, erudition, and ethical commitment to the
subaltern classes make his book a compelling work of mind and
passion."
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