Tales of futures past : anticipation and the ends of literature in contemporary China
Chinese literature Expectation (Psychology) in literature Future, The, in literature Criticism, interpretation, etc sähkökirjat
Stanford University Press
2014
EISBN 9780804791601
How I divorced my robot wife : visionary futures between science and literature.
Translation zones : anticipating world literature in socialist China.
Accelerating literary time : metropolitan editors at work.
Futures en abyme : poetry in strange loops.
A clean place to die : fog, toxicity, and shame in End of spring in Jiangnan.
Appendix 1 : literary periodicals for internal distribution in the 1950s-1960s.
Appendix 2 : poems by Li Shangyin.
This study introduces the concept of 'anticipation' as a lens through which to re-examine the textual, institutional, and experiential aspects of Chinese literary culture from the 1950s to the first decade of the 21st century. Each of the book's five chapters details how different modes of anticipation find expression in contemporary Chinese literature, with a focus on fictional genres.
Translation zones : anticipating world literature in socialist China.
Accelerating literary time : metropolitan editors at work.
Futures en abyme : poetry in strange loops.
A clean place to die : fog, toxicity, and shame in End of spring in Jiangnan.
Appendix 1 : literary periodicals for internal distribution in the 1950s-1960s.
Appendix 2 : poems by Li Shangyin.
This study introduces the concept of 'anticipation' as a lens through which to re-examine the textual, institutional, and experiential aspects of Chinese literary culture from the 1950s to the first decade of the 21st century. Each of the book's five chapters details how different modes of anticipation find expression in contemporary Chinese literature, with a focus on fictional genres.
