Words and their stories : essays on the language of the Chinese revolution

Words and their stories : essays on the language of the Chinese revolution /

As China joins the capitalist world economy, the problems of social disintegration that gave rise to the earlier revolutionary social movements are becoming pressing. Instead of viewing the Chinese Revolution as an academic study, these essays suggest that the motifs of the Revolution are still aliv...

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Online Access: Full text (MCPHS users only)
Other Authors: Wang, Ban, 1957-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Chinese
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2011
Series:Handbuch der Orientalistik. China ; 27. Bd.
Subjects:
Revolutions > China > History > 20th century > Terminology.
Revolutionaries > China > Language.
Political culture > China > History > 20th century.
Literature and revolutions > China > History > 20th century.
Politics and literature > China > History > 20th century.
Discourse analysis > Political aspects > China.
China > Politics and government > 1949-1976 > Terminology.
China > Politics and government > 1912-1949 > Terminology.
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Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Understanding the Chinese revolution through words: an introduction / Ban Wang
  • Revolution: from literary revolution to revolutionary literature / Jianhua Chen
  • The Long March / Enhua Zhang
  • Rectiþcation: party discipline, intellectual remolding, and the formation of a political community / Kirk A. Denton
  • Worker-peasant-soldier's literature / Xiaomei Chen
  • Steel is made through persistent tempering / Xinmin Liu
  • Socialist realism / Ban Wang
  • Political lyric / Xin Ning
  • Writing the actual / Charles A. Laughlin
  • Nowhere in the world does there exist love or hatred without reason / Haiyan Lee
  • Promote physical culture and sport, improve the people's constitution / Xiaoning Lu
  • Typical people in typical circumstances / Richard King
  • Use the past to serve the present; the foreign to serve China / Tina Mai Chen
  • Women can hold up half the sky / Xueping Zhong
  • Let a hundred flowers blossom, let a hundred schools of thought contend / Richard Kraus
  • They love battle array, not silks and satins / Tina Mai Chen
  • The three prominences / Yizhong Gu
  • Revolutionary narrative in the Seventeen Years Period / Guo Bingru.

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