Provides a framework for the many voices calling for the reaffirmation of democratic values, citizenship, and service in the public interest. This edition includes a chapter ...

Chinese literature has been the slave of politics at least since 1948 and especially during the Cultural Revolution. So repressed and convoluted is most Chinese literature that ...

"This work will become one of the most noted and discussed scholarly works in our field and will further establish its author as one of modern China's foremost cultural critics ...

Using the late 1970s and early 1980s as an entree to the workings of China's "socialist literary system, " the author shows how that system held sway from 1950 until around ...

China, Geremie R. Barmé notes, has become one of the greatest writing and publishing nations on the planet, and both cultural activists and the state are embroiled in debates ...

A journal concerned with scholarly social science analysis of post-1949 China.

Writing about writing is a recognized and respected genre in Chinese literature, usually taking the form of autobiographical essays in which writers explain how they pursue ...

The essays that make up this volume offer the reader a full introduction to, and analysis of, the politics of the People's Republic of China from 1949 to the mid 1990s