This book offers a case study of four of the most influential contemporary Chinese writers and ‘cultural bastards’ – Duoduo, an underground ‘misty’ poet; Wang Shuo, a ‘hooligan’ writer; Zhang Chengzhi, an old ‘Red Guard’ and new ‘cultural heretic’; and Wang Xiaobo, a chronicler of Rabelaisian modern history.
Inhoudsopgave
Rethinking the Legacy of the Cultural Revolution Duo Duo: An Impossible Farewell, or, Exile between Revolution and Modernism Wang Shuo: Playing for Thrills in the Era of Reform, or, A Genealogy of the Present Zhang Chengzhi: Striving for Alternative National Forms, or, Old Red Guard and New Cultural Heretic Wang Xiaobo: From ‘Golden Age’ to ‘Silver Age, ‘ or, Writing Against the Gravity of History Revising a Double-Faced Chinese Modernity
Over de auteur
YIBING HUANG is Associate Professor of Chinese at Connecticut College, USA.
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