Cultural Revolution manuscripts : unofficial entertainment fiction from 1970s China / Lena Henningsen.
2021
PL2443 .H46 2021
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Title
Cultural Revolution manuscripts : unofficial entertainment fiction from 1970s China / Lena Henningsen.
Author
Henningsen, Lena, author.
ISBN
9783030733834 (electronic bk.)
3030733831 (electronic bk.)
9783030733827
3030733823
3030733831 (electronic bk.)
9783030733827
3030733823
Published
Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2021]
Copyright
©2021
Language
English
Description
1 online resource : illustrations
Other Standard Identifiers
10.1007/978-3-030-73383-4 doi
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PL2443 .H46 2021
Dewey Decimal Classification
895.13/5209
Summary
This book investigates handwritten entertainment fiction (shouchaoben wenxue) which circulated clandestinely during the Chinese Cultural Revolution. Lena Henningsens analyses of exemplary stories and their variation across different manuscript copies brings to light the creativity of these readers-turned-copyists. Through copying, readers modified the stories and became secondary authors who reflected on the realities of the Cultural Revolution. Through an enquiry into actual reading practices as mapped in autobiographical accounts and into intertextual references within the stories, the book also positions manuscript fiction within the larger reading cosmos of the long 1970s. Henningsen analyzes the production, circulation and consumption of these texts, considering continuities across the alleged divide of the end of the Mao-era and the beginning of the reform period. The book further reveals how these texts achieved fruitful afterlives as re-published bestsellers or as adaptations into comic books or movies, continuing to shape the minds of their audience and the imaginations of the past. Chapter 5 is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.
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Chinese literature and culture in the world.
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Cultural revolution manuscripts.
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Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: The writing and rewriting of an exemplary shouchaoben: Zhang Yangs The Second Handshake during the Cultural Revolution
Chapter 3: Texts on travel: stability across variation and secondary authorship in espionage shouchaoben fiction
Chapter 4: Shouchaoben as literary avant-garde: Open Love Letters and Waves
Chapter 5: Ways of reading: Cultural Revolution reading acts
Chapter 6: World literature and intertextuality: reading acts in shouchaoben fiction
Chapter 7: From underground into the mainstream: shouchaoben fiction on the commercial book market
Chapter 8: Conclusion: Shouchaoben fiction as texts in motion.
Chapter 2: The writing and rewriting of an exemplary shouchaoben: Zhang Yangs The Second Handshake during the Cultural Revolution
Chapter 3: Texts on travel: stability across variation and secondary authorship in espionage shouchaoben fiction
Chapter 4: Shouchaoben as literary avant-garde: Open Love Letters and Waves
Chapter 5: Ways of reading: Cultural Revolution reading acts
Chapter 6: World literature and intertextuality: reading acts in shouchaoben fiction
Chapter 7: From underground into the mainstream: shouchaoben fiction on the commercial book market
Chapter 8: Conclusion: Shouchaoben fiction as texts in motion.