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The Uses of Literature – Life in the Socialist Chinese Literary System Paperback - 2000
by Perry Link
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- Title The Uses of Literature – Life in the Socialist Chinese Literary System
- Author Perry Link
- Binding Paperback
- Edition 1st Paperback
- Condition New
- Pages 386
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Princeton Univ Pr, Princeton:
- Date 2000
- Features Bibliography, Glossary
- Bookseller's Inventory # x-0691001987
- ISBN 9780691001982 / 0691001987
- Weight 1.21 lbs (0.55 kg)
- Dimensions 9.21 x 6.14 x 1.03 in (23.39 x 15.60 x 2.62 cm)
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Themes
- Cultural Region: Asian - General
- Cultural Region: Asian - Chinese
- Cultural Region: East Asian
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 99041856
- Dewey Decimal Code 895.109
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From the rear cover
Using the late 1970s and early 1980s as an entree to the workings of China's "socialist literary system", the author shows how that system held sway from 1950 until around 1990, when an encroaching market economy gradually but fundamentally changed it. In addition to providing a definitive overview of how the socialist Chinese literary system worked, Link offers comparisons to the similar system in the Soviet Union. In the final chapter, the book seeks to explain how the word "good" was used and understood when applied to literary works in such systems.
Combining aspects of cultural and literary studies, The Uses of Literature will reward anyone interested in the literature of modern China or how creativity is affected by a "socialist literary system".
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Citations
- Choice, 09/01/2000, Page 123