Cultural revolution manuscripts : Unofficial entertainment fiction from 1970s China 1st ed.

Author

• Henningsen, Lena

Additional Author(s)

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Publisher

Cham, Switzerland : Springer International Publishing, 2021

Language

English

ISBN

9783030733834

Series

Chinese literature and culture in the world

Subject(s)

• CHINESE FICTION
• UNDERGROUND LITERATURE

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Abstract

This book investigates handwritten entertainment fiction (shouchaoben wenxue) which circulated clandestinely during the Chinese Cultural Revolution. Lena Henningsen’s 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.

Physical Dimension

Number of Page(s)

1 online resource (xviii, 283 p.)

Dimension

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Other Desc.

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Summary / Review / Table of Content

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

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