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Roy Bing Chan 
The Edge of Knowing 
Dreams, History, and Realism in Modern Chinese Literature

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Realism and the rhetoric of dreams intersected in modern Chinese literature from the May Fourth Era in the early twentieth century through the period just following the end of the Cultural Revolution in 1976. The Edge of Knowing investigates this relationship, showing how writers’ attention to dreams demonstrates the multiple influences of Western psychology, utopian desire for revolutionary change, and the enduring legacy of traditional Chinese philosophy. At the same time, modern Chinese writers used their work to represent social reality for the purpose of nation building. Recent political usage of dream rhetoric in the People’s Republic of China attests to the continuing influence of dreams on the imagination of Chinese modernity.
By employing a number of critical perspectives, The Edge of Knowing will appeal to readers seeking to understand the complicated relationship between literary form and Chinese history and politics.

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Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Sleeping through Catastrophe: Dreams, Cataclysmic Modernity, and the Promises of Literary Realism
2. Dreaming as Representation: Lu Xun’s Wild Grass and Realism’s Social Address
3. Realism’s Hysterical Bodies: Narrative and Oneiric Counternarrative in Mao Dun’s Fiction
4. Sleepless Nights in Fast Socialism: Dream Rhetoric and Fiction in the Mao Era
5. Dream Fugue: Jiang Qing, the End of the Cultural Revolution, and Zong Pu’s Fiction
Conclusion: Lu Xun and the Dreams of Politics and Literature
Glossary of Chinese Characters
Notes
References
Index

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Roy Bing Chan, associate professor of Chinese literature, University of Oregon, received his Ph D in comparative literature from the University of California, Berkeley, in 2009. This is his first book.
Taal Engels ● Formaat EPUB ● Pagina’s 233 ● ISBN 9780295999005 ● Bestandsgrootte 6.0 MB ● Uitgeverij University of Washington Press ● Stad Seattle ● Land US ● Gepubliceerd 2016 ● Downloadbare 24 maanden ● Valuta EUR ● ID 5053389 ● Kopieerbeveiliging Adobe DRM
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