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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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Bibliographic Details
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.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Chinese Occidentalism: The Nostalgia for a Utopian Past Gives Way to the Idea of Progress: H.G. Wells and the Modern Utopia
  • Dystopian Fiction in the Soviet Union, Proletkult, and Socialist-Realist Utopianism
  • Mao Zedong's Utopian Thought and the Post-Mao Imaginative Response
  • Utopias, Dystopias, and Their Hybrid Variants in Europe and America since World War I
  • Concluding Observations.