Overview
Provides a “novel” approach to our understanding of modern China
Explores Chinese novelists’ distinctive contributions
Dramatizes ordinary social actors’ everyday language
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About this book
This book explores Chinese novelists’ distinctive contributions to the China debate in terms of the key issues of Chinese language, power dynamics and Confucian tradition. As China is rising, Chinese scholars and policymakers are debating heatedly over China’s past, present and future. Who are the major debaters? How do they analyze China’s problems and figure out solutions? What are the main achievements and weaknesses of the Chinese intellectual debate and discourse? Chinese novelists also get involved in the China debate. However, their voices are rarely heard. This book argues that, by dramatizing the diversities of ordinary social actors’ everyday languages, active discursive practices and enchanted local traditions, Chinese novelists do not merely illustrate the dominant liberal, the New Left and the New Confucian ideologies, but enrich the China debate and provide a “novel” approach to our understanding of modern China.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Gengsong Gao is Assistant Professor of Chinese Studies at the University of Richmond, where he teaches Chinese language courses and courses concerning modern and contemporary Chinese literature and culture.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: A Novel Approach to China
Book Subtitle: What China Debaters Can Learn from Contemporary Chinese Novelists
Authors: Gengsong Gao
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-6518-9
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Singapore
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-16-6517-2Published: 04 January 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-16-6520-2Published: 05 January 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-981-16-6518-9Published: 03 January 2022
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXVII, 233
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Asian Literature, Asian Politics, History of China