TY  - BOOK
AU  - Andolfatto,Lorenzo
TI  - Hundred days' literature: Chinese utopian fiction at the end of empire, 1902-1910 
T2  - East Asian comparative literature and culture,
SN  - 9789004398856
AV  - PL2441 .A53 2019
U1  - 895.13/48 2019 
PY  - 2019///]
CY  - Leiden, Boston
PB  - Brill
KW  - Chinese fiction
KW  - Qing dynasty, 1644-1912
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Utopias in literature
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Front Matter -- Copyright page -- Acknowledgments -- Editorial Note -- Introductory Steps to Utopia -- Of Textual Territories and Literary Cartographies -- Gesturing toward Utopia -- Empires Erased, Empires Rewritten -- The Staging of the Utopian Spectacle -- The Celebration of the Utopian Spectacle -- Utopia’s Carnivalization -- Back Matter -- New Year’s Dream, by Cai Yuanpei -- Bibliography -- Index
N2  - In Hundred Days’ Literature , Lorenzo Andolfatto explores the landscape of early modern Chinese fiction through the lens of the utopian novel, casting new light on some of its most peculiar yet often overshadowed literary specimens. The wutuobang or lixiang xiaoshuo , by virtue of its ideally totalizing perspective, provides a one-of-a-kind critical tool for the understanding of late imperial China’s fragmented Zeitgeist . Building upon rigorous close reading and solid theoretical foundations, Hundred Days’ Literature offers the reader a transcultural critical itinerary that links Edward Bellamy’s Looking Backward to Wu Jianren’s Xin Shitou ji via the writings of Liang Qichao, Chen Tianhua, Bihe Guanzhuren, and Lu Shi’e. The book also includes the first English translation of Cai Yuanpei’s short story “New Year’s Dream.”
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004398856
ER  -