Hundred Days' Literature
Chinese Utopian Fiction at the End of Empire, 1902-1910
Published on 21. March 2019
Book
Hardback
238 pages
978-90-04-39884-9 (ISBN)
Description
In Hundred Days' Literature, Lorenzo Andolfatto explores the landscape of early modern Chinese fiction through the lens of the utopian novel, casting new light on some of its most peculiar yet often overshadowed literary specimens. The wutuobang or lixiang xiaoshuo, by virtue of its ideally totalizing perspective, provides a one-of-a-kind critical tool for the understanding of late imperial China's fragmented Zeitgeist. Building upon rigorous close reading and solid theoretical foundations, Hundred Days' Literature offers the reader a transcultural critical itinerary that links Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward to Wu Jianren's Xin Shitou ji via the writings of Liang Qichao, Chen Tianhua, Bihe Guanzhuren, and Lu Shi'e. The book also includes the first English translation of Cai Yuanpei's short story "New Year's Dream."
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Language
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 236 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
476 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-04-39884-9 (9789004398849)
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Person
Lorenzo Andolfatto, Ph.D. (2015) is a research fellow at Heidelberg University's Cluster of Excellence "Asia and Europe in a Global Context," where he pursues research in modern Chinese and comparative literature. He is also a translator of Chinese fiction.
Content
Acknowledgments
Editorial Note
Introductory Steps to Utopia
?0.1?Proposal for a Critical Itinerary within the Chinese Utopia of Modernity
?0.2?Preliminary Steps: Cai Yuanpei's Xinnian meng
?0.3?Prospective Steps into the Late Qing Utopian Landscape
1 Of Textual Territories and Literary Cartographies
?1.1?Staking a Claim to Utopia
?1.2?Landscapes Long Overshadowed
?1.3?Tracing Boundaries to Cross, Drawing Grids to Escape
2 Gesturing Toward Utopia
?2.1?Liang Qichao's Xin Zhongguo weilai ji; or, on Futures Unrealized
?2.2?Layers of Estrangement in Chen Tianhua's Shizi hou
?2.3?If One Intends to Renovate the People of a Nation
3 Empires Erased, Empires Rewritten
?3.1?The Productive Distortion of Looking Backward
?3.2?Looking Further Backward versus Xin jiyuan: the Internecine Phase of Utopia
?3.3?Toward a Synthesis of Complementary Discourses
4 The Staging of the Utopian Spectacle
?4.1?Mending the Waterproof Covering of New China
?4.2?Utopia as a Spectacle on the Stage of History
?4.3?Familiar and Unfamiliar Rituals in Wu Jianren's Xin Shitou ji
5 The Celebration of the Utopian Spectacle
?5.1?Utopia as a Geography of Language New and Old
?5.2?An Interplay of Absences
?5.3?Suvinian Nova, Utopian Tokens
Coda: Utopia's Carnivalization
Appendix: New Year's Dream, by Cai Yuanpei
Bibliography
Index
Editorial Note
Introductory Steps to Utopia
?0.1?Proposal for a Critical Itinerary within the Chinese Utopia of Modernity
?0.2?Preliminary Steps: Cai Yuanpei's Xinnian meng
?0.3?Prospective Steps into the Late Qing Utopian Landscape
1 Of Textual Territories and Literary Cartographies
?1.1?Staking a Claim to Utopia
?1.2?Landscapes Long Overshadowed
?1.3?Tracing Boundaries to Cross, Drawing Grids to Escape
2 Gesturing Toward Utopia
?2.1?Liang Qichao's Xin Zhongguo weilai ji; or, on Futures Unrealized
?2.2?Layers of Estrangement in Chen Tianhua's Shizi hou
?2.3?If One Intends to Renovate the People of a Nation
3 Empires Erased, Empires Rewritten
?3.1?The Productive Distortion of Looking Backward
?3.2?Looking Further Backward versus Xin jiyuan: the Internecine Phase of Utopia
?3.3?Toward a Synthesis of Complementary Discourses
4 The Staging of the Utopian Spectacle
?4.1?Mending the Waterproof Covering of New China
?4.2?Utopia as a Spectacle on the Stage of History
?4.3?Familiar and Unfamiliar Rituals in Wu Jianren's Xin Shitou ji
5 The Celebration of the Utopian Spectacle
?5.1?Utopia as a Geography of Language New and Old
?5.2?An Interplay of Absences
?5.3?Suvinian Nova, Utopian Tokens
Coda: Utopia's Carnivalization
Appendix: New Year's Dream, by Cai Yuanpei
Bibliography
Index