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1 electronic resource (448 pages) |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 411-430) and indexes. |
| Summary |
"Perfect Worlds offers an extensive historical analysis of utopian narratives in the Chinese and Euro-American traditions. This comparative study discusses, among other things, More's criticism of Plato, the European orientalist search for utopia in China, Wells's Modern Utopia and his talk with Stalin, Chinese writers constructing their Confucianist utopia, traces of Daoism in Mao Zedong's utopianism and politics and finally the rise of dystopian writing - a negative expression of the utopian impulse - in Europe and America as well as in China"--P. 4 of cover. |
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Description based on print version record; resource not viewed. |
| Contents |
Chinese Occidentalism: The Nostalgia for a Utopian Past Gives Way to the Idea of Progress: H.G. Wells and the Modern Utopia -- Dystopian Fiction in the Soviet Union, Proletkult, and Socialist-Realist Utopianism -- Mao Zedong's Utopian Thought and the Post-Mao Imaginative Response -- Utopias, Dystopias, and Their Hybrid Variants in Europe and America since World War I -- Concluding Observations. |
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English. |
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Chinese fiction -- History and criticism.
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Comparative literature -- Western and Chinese.
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Utopias in literature.
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Utopias.
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Utopias |
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Roman chinois -- Histoire et critique.
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Littérature comparée -- Occidentale et chinoise.
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Utopies dans la littérature.
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Utopies.
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utopian literature.
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Literature and literary studies.
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Literature: history and criticism.
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Literary studies: general.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- General.
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Utopias
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Chinese fiction
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Comparative literature -- Western and Chinese
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Utopias in literature
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Literatur
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Utopie
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China
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Westliche Welt
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Multi-User. |
| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Utopian fiction in China and the West |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Perfect worlds Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, c2011. 9789089643506 (pbk.) (DLC) 2011522483 |
| ISBN |
9789048514861 e-isbn |
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9789089643506 pbk. |
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904851486X (electronic bk.) |
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9089643508 |
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128333447X |
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9781283334471 |
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9789048514861 (electronic bk.) |
| Standard No. |
9786613334473 |
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ebc819873 |
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NZ1 14935944 |
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NZ1 14691911 |
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NLGGC 382503368 |
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GBVCP 865737177 |
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GBVCP 1003685285 |
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AU@ 000050979238 |
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DKDLA 820120-katalog:999921267705765 |
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