Words and their stories : essays on the language of the Chinese revolution /
Words and their stories : essays on the language of the Chinese revolution /
edited by Ban Wang.
- 1 online resource.
- Handbook of Oriental studies. Section four, China Handbuch der orientalistik, v. 27 = 0169-9520 ; Brill ebook titles .
- Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 4 China 27. Brill's Companions to Asian Studies Online I, ISBN: 9789004389212. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Preliminary Material / Understanding The Chinese Revolution Through Words: An Introduction / 1. Revolution: From Literary Revolution To Revolutionary Literature / 2. The Long March / 3. Rectification: Party Discipline, Intellectual Remolding, And The Formation Of A Political Community / 4. Worker-Peasant-Soldier Literature / 5. Steel Is Made Through Persistent Tempering / 6. Socialist Realism / 7. Political Lyric / 8. Writing The Actual / 9. Nowhere In The World Does There Exist Love Or Hatred Without Reason / 10. Promote Physical Culture And Sport, Improve The People’s Constitution / 11. Typical People In Typical Circumstances / 12. Use The Past To Serve The Present; The Foreign To Serve China / 13. Women Can Hold Up Half The Sky / 14. Let A Hundred Flowers Blossom, Let A Hundred Schools Of Thought Contend / 15. They Love Battle Array, Not Silks And Satins / 16. The Three Prominences / 17. Revolutionary Narrative In The Seventeen Years Period / Bibliography / Index / B. Wang -- Ban Wang -- Jianhua Chen -- Enhua Zhang -- Kirk A. Denton -- Xiaomei Chen -- Xinmin Liu -- Ban Wang -- Xin Ning -- Charles A. Laughlin -- Haiyan Lee -- Xiaoning Lu -- Richard King -- Tina Mai Chen -- Xueping Zhong -- Richard Kraus -- Tina Mai Chen -- Yizhong Gu -- Guo Bingru -- B. Wang -- B. Wang.
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As China joins the capitalist world economy, the problems of social disintegration that gave rise to the earlier revolutionary social movements are becoming pressing. Instead of viewing the Chinese Revolution as an academic study, these essays suggest that the motifs of the Revolution are still alive and relevant. The slogan “Farewell to Revolution” that obscures the revolutionary language is premature. In spite of dislocations and ruptures in the revolutionary language, to rethink this discourse is to revisit a history in terms of sedimented layers of linguistic meanings and political aspirations. Earlier meanings of revolutionary words may persist or coexist with non-revolutionary rivals. Recovery of the vital uses of key revolutionary words proffers critical alternatives in which contemporary capitalist myths can be contested.
9789004188617
10.1163/ej.9789004188600.i-342 DOI
2010023733
Revolutions--History--Terminology.--China--20th century
Revolutionaries--Language.--China
Political culture--History--China--20th century.
Literature and revolutions--History--China--20th century.
Politics and literature--History--China--20th century.
Discourse analysis--Political aspects--China.
China--Politics and government--Terminology.--1949-1976.
China--Politics and government--Terminology.--1912-1949.
DS777.56 / .W67 2011
951.04/2
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Preliminary Material / Understanding The Chinese Revolution Through Words: An Introduction / 1. Revolution: From Literary Revolution To Revolutionary Literature / 2. The Long March / 3. Rectification: Party Discipline, Intellectual Remolding, And The Formation Of A Political Community / 4. Worker-Peasant-Soldier Literature / 5. Steel Is Made Through Persistent Tempering / 6. Socialist Realism / 7. Political Lyric / 8. Writing The Actual / 9. Nowhere In The World Does There Exist Love Or Hatred Without Reason / 10. Promote Physical Culture And Sport, Improve The People’s Constitution / 11. Typical People In Typical Circumstances / 12. Use The Past To Serve The Present; The Foreign To Serve China / 13. Women Can Hold Up Half The Sky / 14. Let A Hundred Flowers Blossom, Let A Hundred Schools Of Thought Contend / 15. They Love Battle Array, Not Silks And Satins / 16. The Three Prominences / 17. Revolutionary Narrative In The Seventeen Years Period / Bibliography / Index / B. Wang -- Ban Wang -- Jianhua Chen -- Enhua Zhang -- Kirk A. Denton -- Xiaomei Chen -- Xinmin Liu -- Ban Wang -- Xin Ning -- Charles A. Laughlin -- Haiyan Lee -- Xiaoning Lu -- Richard King -- Tina Mai Chen -- Xueping Zhong -- Richard Kraus -- Tina Mai Chen -- Yizhong Gu -- Guo Bingru -- B. Wang -- B. Wang.
Available to subscribing member institutions only.
As China joins the capitalist world economy, the problems of social disintegration that gave rise to the earlier revolutionary social movements are becoming pressing. Instead of viewing the Chinese Revolution as an academic study, these essays suggest that the motifs of the Revolution are still alive and relevant. The slogan “Farewell to Revolution” that obscures the revolutionary language is premature. In spite of dislocations and ruptures in the revolutionary language, to rethink this discourse is to revisit a history in terms of sedimented layers of linguistic meanings and political aspirations. Earlier meanings of revolutionary words may persist or coexist with non-revolutionary rivals. Recovery of the vital uses of key revolutionary words proffers critical alternatives in which contemporary capitalist myths can be contested.
9789004188617
10.1163/ej.9789004188600.i-342 DOI
2010023733
Revolutions--History--Terminology.--China--20th century
Revolutionaries--Language.--China
Political culture--History--China--20th century.
Literature and revolutions--History--China--20th century.
Politics and literature--History--China--20th century.
Discourse analysis--Political aspects--China.
China--Politics and government--Terminology.--1949-1976.
China--Politics and government--Terminology.--1912-1949.
DS777.56 / .W67 2011
951.04/2