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By Xiang Cai, Rebecca E. Karl, Xueping Zhong

ISBN-10: 0822360543

ISBN-13: 9780822360544

Published in China in 2010, Revolution and Its Narratives is a ancient, literary, and demanding account of the cultural construction of the narratives of China's socialist revolution. via theoretical, empirical, and textual research of significant and minor novels, dramas, brief tales, and cinema, Cai Xiang deals a fancy examine that exceeds the slender confines of present perspectives of socialist aesthetics. by means of enticing with the connection between tradition, background, and politics within the context of the innovative transformation of chinese language society and humanities, Cai illuminates the utopian promise in addition to the last word impossibility of socialist cultural construction. Translated, annotated, and edited through Rebecca E. Karl and Xueping Zhong, this translation offers Cai's influential paintings to English-language readers for the 1st time.
 
 

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IV As a matter of fact, the focus of my study is not entirely on revolutionary but rather also on postrevolutionary China. Revolution here refers to a specific historical practice in China, which we can define, in a form of shorthand, as a social-political practice that takes the form of a large-scale military resistance with the goal of capturing state power. Relative to this revolution, after 1949, China essentially entered a postrevolutionary period, which is of course a metaphorical reference.

These contradictory elements were juxtaposed to one another in postrevolutionary socialist China, giving rise to various radical conflicts during this period. In this sense, I do not think it is enough to identify sources of contradictions in socialism as emanating only either from Chinese tradition or external threats. We must also enter and explore the structure within, or the apparatus itself, to look for the roots of the contradictions. When contradictions abound, they cause crisis in a society.

Rebecca Karl, China’s New Order, ed. Theodore Huters (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2003), 139–87. 12. Badiou, “The Communist Hypothesis,” 42. INTRODUCTION | 7 the world that is both universal and diverse. It is in this sense that I believe that revolutionary China is one of the most important [conceptual and historical] legacies of the twentieth century. Precisely due to this particular local political experience, which is also a particular local literary experience, there also exists a complex relationship between revolutionary China and traditional China.

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