Perfect worlds : utopian fiction in China and the West /

Perfect Worlds offers an extensive historical analysis of utopian narratives in the Chinese and Euro-American traditions. This comparative study discusses, among other things, More's criticism of Plato, the European orientalist search for utopia in China, Wells's Modern Utopia and his talk...

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Main Author:	Fokkema, Douwe (Author)
Corporate Author:	JSTOR (Organization)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Language Notes:	English.
Published:	Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2011]
Subjects:	Utopias in literature > History and criticism. Chinese fiction > History and criticism. Comparative literature > Western and Chinese. BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Literary. Literature and literary studies. Literature: history and criticism. Literary studies: general. LITERARY CRITICISM > General. Chinese fiction. Utopias in literature. Literatur. Utopie. China. Westliche Welt. Multi-User. Electronic books. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Summary:	Perfect Worlds offers an extensive historical analysis of utopian narratives in the Chinese and Euro-American traditions. This comparative study discusses, among other things, More's criticism of Plato, the European orientalist search for utopia in China, Wells's Modern Utopia and his talk with Stalin, Chinese writers constructing their Confucianist utopia, traces of Daoism in Mao Zedong's utopianism and politics and finally the rise of dystopian writing - a negative expression of the utopian impulse - in Europe and America as well as in China.
Item Description:	Electronic resource.
Physical Description:	1 online resource (448 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:	9789048514861 904851486X