Perfect worlds : utopian fiction in China and the West /

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"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 hi...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Fokkema, Douwe Wessel, 1931-2011
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2011]
Subjects:
Chinese fiction > History and criticism.
Comparative literature > Western and Chinese.
Utopias in literature.
Utopias.
Utopias
Roman chinois > Histoire et critique.
Littérature comparée > Occidentale et chinoise.
Utopies dans la littérature.
Utopies.
utopian literature.
Literature and literary studies.
Literature: history and criticism.
Literary studies: general.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Literary.
LITERARY CRITICISM > General.
Chinese fiction
Comparative literature > Western and Chinese
Utopias in literature
Literatur
Utopie
China
Westliche Welt
Multi-User.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:"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 with Stalin, Chinese writers constructing their Confucianist utopia, traces of Daoism in Mao Zedong's utopianism and politics and finally the rise of dystopian writing - a negative expression of the utopian impulse - in Europe and America as well as in China"--P. 4 of cover.
Physical Description:1 electronic resource (448 pages)
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 411-430) and indexes.
ISBN:904851486X
9789048514861

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