Anticipation and the Ends of Literature in Contemporary China
Anticipation and the Ends of Literature in Contemporary China
This book investigates how emotions and ideas about the future have shaped diverse genres, texts, and editorial practices of Chinese literature from the mid-twentieth century to 2011, introducing the concept of "anticipation" as a lens to reconsider the interdependence of aesthetics and politics in Chinese socialist and postsocialist literary modernity.
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This book investigates how emotions and ideas about the future have shaped diverse genres, texts, and editorial practices of Chinese literature from the mid-twentieth century to 2011, introducing the concept of "anticipation" as a lens to reconsider the interdependence of aesthetics and politics in Chinese socialist and postsocialist literary modernity.