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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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