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 Words and Their Stories: Essays on the Language of the Chinese Revolution

Contents

• • Preliminary Material (i-x)   (155K)
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    • Contents
    • List Of Contributors
  • Understanding The Chinese Revolution Through Words: An Introduction (1-14) by Ban Wang   (178K)
  • Revolution: From Literary Revolution To Revolutionary Literature (15-32) by Jianhua Chen   (195K)
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    • The Translation Of Geming At The Turn Of The Twentieth Century
    • The May Fourth “Literary Revolution”
    • The “Revolutionary Literature” Polemic In The Late 1920s
    • Fiction Of “Revolution Plus Love”
    • Epilogue: The Great Cultural Revolution And Beyond
  • The Long March (33-50) by Enhua Zhang   (195K)
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    • The Term
    • The Long March In Historical Writing
    • Queries
    • The Long March In Literature And Film
    • The Long March In Public Memory
  • Rectification: Party Discipline, Intellectual Remolding, And The Formation Of A Political Community (51-64) by Kirk A. Denton   (232K)
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    • The Term
    • Yan’An Rectification (1941–44)
    • Rectification Of Contradictions In Society
  • Worker-Peasant-Soldier Literature (65-84) by Xiaomei Chen   (259K)
  • Steel Is Made Through Persistent Tempering (85-100) by Xinmin Liu   (186K)
  • Socialist Realism (101-118) by Ban Wang   (138K)
  • Political Lyric (119-134) by Xin Ning   (200K)
  • Writing The Actual (135-148) by Charles A. Laughlin   (128K)
  • Nowhere In The World Does There Exist Love Or Hatred Without Reason (149-170) by Haiyan Lee   (158K)
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    • The Maoist Conception Of The Political
    • To Hate And To Die For
    • Love Without Rhyme Or Reason
  • Promote Physical Culture And Sport, Improve The People's Constitution (171-184) by Xiaoning Lu   (130K)
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    • Genealogy
    • Early Discourses Of Tiyu: Physical Prowess, National Strength, And Self-Cultivation
    • Discourses Of Tiyu In Mao’s China
  • Typical People In Typical Circumstances (185-204) by Richard King   (1M)
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    • Genealogy
    • Debates About The Typical In Wartime China: Hu Feng Vs. Zhou Yang
    • Typicality And Class: He Qifang, LI Xifan, And Others In The Continuing Debate Over Ah Q
    • “The Basic Task”: Instructions For Understanding And Portraying The Typical In The Cultural Revolution
  • Use The Past To Serve The Present; The Foreign To Serve China (205-226) by Tina Mai Chen   (152K)
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    • History, Historiography, And The Dialectics Of Time And Space
    • The Post-Mao Years: From Dialectics To Pragmatism
  • Women Can Hold Up Half The Sky (227-248) by Xueping Zhong   (165K)
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    • Tales One, Two, Three (And A Half )
    • Tale Four
  • Let A Hundred Flowers Blossom, Let A Hundred Schools Of Thought Contend (249-262) by Richard Kraus   (126K)
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    • The 1956–57 Hundred Flowers Campaign
    • The 1957 Antirightist Campaign
    • A Complex Heritage
    • A “Second Hundred Flowers”
    • Flowers In The Cultural Market
  • They Love Battle Array, Not Silks And Satins (263-282) by Tina Mai Chen   (1M)
  • The Three Prominences (283-304) by Yizhong Gu   (164K)
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    • Genealogical Study: The Irresolvable Description-Prescription Contradiction?
    • Narrative Accounts: The Awkward Position Of The Main Heroic Character?
    • Postscript
  • Revolutionary Narrative In The Seventeen Years Period (305-318) by Guo Bingru   (157K)
  • Bibliography (319-334)   (181K)
  • Index (335-342)   (108K)