Among the series of characters created in Seventeen-Year Literature(1949-66),Liang Shengbao is a unique figure particularly worth studying.In Builders of a New Life(Chuangyeshi),Liu Qing attempts to presents his under...Among the series of characters created in Seventeen-Year Literature(1949-66),Liang Shengbao is a unique figure particularly worth studying.In Builders of a New Life(Chuangyeshi),Liu Qing attempts to presents his understanding of the realization of the agricultural cooperative movement through the narration of Liang Shengbao's traits and personality.As a consequence,the creation of Liang Shengbao,an ideal character,has both historical and literary meanings.Based on the analysis of Liu Qing's“writing method,"this paper reveal is the historical and literary creation mechanism of Liang Shengbao by comparing and interpreting the relationship,the writing method,and the differences between Liang Shengbao and other characters close to him,thus unfolding the research significance of this ideal character.展开更多
Builders of a New Life(Chuangyeshi)is a novel that takes a deep dive into the essence of historical materialism and dialectical materialism.The novel creates a literary form of political metanarrative and presents the...Builders of a New Life(Chuangyeshi)is a novel that takes a deep dive into the essence of historical materialism and dialectical materialism.The novel creates a literary form of political metanarrative and presents the literary narrative of the rural cooperative movement in China within the framework of socialist revolution,through a plot with the connotation of documentary political economy.At the literary narrative level,Builders of a New Life develops the narrative through the subjective perspectives of numerous characters,which pushes the development of the plot forward and bridges the text world with external reality.The result is the creation of a world of general literature unifying thought,emotion and action,along with the development of a distinctive epic narrative form.展开更多
The purpose of the paper is to draw the historical background of the New Man in Socialism from his beginning in the 1917 avant-garde circles after the October Revolution in Russia--specially in Vsevolod Meyerhold＇s t...The purpose of the paper is to draw the historical background of the New Man in Socialism from his beginning in the 1917 avant-garde circles after the October Revolution in Russia--specially in Vsevolod Meyerhold＇s technique of typage--to its oversimplification as official aesthetic during the Stalin＇s period and its adoption by the People＇s Republic of China and the motivation behind it. The iconic and extremely codified images of the Socialist New Man are analyzed under the new light of the recent essays about art, which defy the traditional image among scholars of the style as monolithic and lackluster. The later part of the paper deals with the fading away of Socialist Realism during the 1980s as the Soviet bloc disintegrated and China evolved into a ＂socialist market economy with Chinese characteristics,＂ but persisted, applied adamantly, in North Korea, who exports it to African countries like Senegal or Namibia.展开更多
This paper analyses Socialist Realist novels from the early years of the People＇s Republic of China （PRC）, focusing on scenes of food and drink consumption. While these scenes may appear marginal at first glance, t...This paper analyses Socialist Realist novels from the early years of the People＇s Republic of China （PRC）, focusing on scenes of food and drink consumption. While these scenes may appear marginal at first glance, the analysis demonstrates how food and its consumption function as codes to normative values. I am therefore proposing a reading of these texts based on the model of intertextuality （Julia Kristeva） and on an anthropological model on （food） consumption （Mary Douglas）, advocating that acts of consumption reveal social hierarchies and the position of the individual therein. These fictional scenes of everyday activities construct fictional characters as heroes or villains. Given the normative value of this officially endorsed literature, these scenes at the same time prescribe （and, likewise, proscribe） certain behavior to their readers. On another level, however, these codes also convey information that could not be openly spelled out at the time, as when the sharing of food is the only way in which two fictional characters can express their love. Simple food can thus be the source of entertainment, enjoyment, suspense, and even nostalgia for contemporary readers, which, in turn, may be one of the reasons for the lasting popularity of the codes described and of a number of the texts presented in the analysis.展开更多
文摘Among the series of characters created in Seventeen-Year Literature(1949-66),Liang Shengbao is a unique figure particularly worth studying.In Builders of a New Life(Chuangyeshi),Liu Qing attempts to presents his understanding of the realization of the agricultural cooperative movement through the narration of Liang Shengbao's traits and personality.As a consequence,the creation of Liang Shengbao,an ideal character,has both historical and literary meanings.Based on the analysis of Liu Qing's“writing method,"this paper reveal is the historical and literary creation mechanism of Liang Shengbao by comparing and interpreting the relationship,the writing method,and the differences between Liang Shengbao and other characters close to him,thus unfolding the research significance of this ideal character.
文摘Builders of a New Life(Chuangyeshi)is a novel that takes a deep dive into the essence of historical materialism and dialectical materialism.The novel creates a literary form of political metanarrative and presents the literary narrative of the rural cooperative movement in China within the framework of socialist revolution,through a plot with the connotation of documentary political economy.At the literary narrative level,Builders of a New Life develops the narrative through the subjective perspectives of numerous characters,which pushes the development of the plot forward and bridges the text world with external reality.The result is the creation of a world of general literature unifying thought,emotion and action,along with the development of a distinctive epic narrative form.
文摘The purpose of the paper is to draw the historical background of the New Man in Socialism from his beginning in the 1917 avant-garde circles after the October Revolution in Russia--specially in Vsevolod Meyerhold＇s technique of typage--to its oversimplification as official aesthetic during the Stalin＇s period and its adoption by the People＇s Republic of China and the motivation behind it. The iconic and extremely codified images of the Socialist New Man are analyzed under the new light of the recent essays about art, which defy the traditional image among scholars of the style as monolithic and lackluster. The later part of the paper deals with the fading away of Socialist Realism during the 1980s as the Soviet bloc disintegrated and China evolved into a ＂socialist market economy with Chinese characteristics,＂ but persisted, applied adamantly, in North Korea, who exports it to African countries like Senegal or Namibia.
文摘This paper analyses Socialist Realist novels from the early years of the People＇s Republic of China （PRC）, focusing on scenes of food and drink consumption. While these scenes may appear marginal at first glance, the analysis demonstrates how food and its consumption function as codes to normative values. I am therefore proposing a reading of these texts based on the model of intertextuality （Julia Kristeva） and on an anthropological model on （food） consumption （Mary Douglas）, advocating that acts of consumption reveal social hierarchies and the position of the individual therein. These fictional scenes of everyday activities construct fictional characters as heroes or villains. Given the normative value of this officially endorsed literature, these scenes at the same time prescribe （and, likewise, proscribe） certain behavior to their readers. On another level, however, these codes also convey information that could not be openly spelled out at the time, as when the sharing of food is the only way in which two fictional characters can express their love. Simple food can thus be the source of entertainment, enjoyment, suspense, and even nostalgia for contemporary readers, which, in turn, may be one of the reasons for the lasting popularity of the codes described and of a number of the texts presented in the analysis.
