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This book offers a case study of four of the most influential contemporary Chinese writers and 'cultural bastards' - Duoduo, an underground 'misty' poet; Wang Shuo, a 'hooligan' writer; Zhang Chengzhi, an old 'Red Guard' and new 'cultural heretic'; and Wang Xiaobo, a chronicler of Rabelaisian modern history.
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'Taking a close look at Chinese literature in the post Cultural Revolution period as well as the era of economic takeoff, Huang deploys a very ingenious and provocative trope, that of the orphan pairing up with the bastard. Highlighting the self-contradictory nature and crisis-ridden search in writers such as Duo Duo, Wang Shuo, Zhang Chengzhi, and Wang Xiaobo, Huang's work is a comprehensive study of culturally orphaned and politically rebellious generations in search of their voice and identity.' - Ban Wang, Stanford University
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YIBING HUANG is Associate Professor of Chinese at Connecticut College, USA.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Contemporary Chinese Literature
Book Subtitle: From the Cultural Revolution to the Future
Authors: Yibing Huang
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230608757
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Palgrave Literature & Performing Arts Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2007
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4039-7982-7Published: 09 April 2008
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-53840-9Published: 09 April 2008
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-60875-7Published: 26 November 2007
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 219
Topics: Twentieth-Century Literature, Regional and Cultural Studies, Poetry and Poetics, Asian Literature, Postcolonial/World Literature