Revolution and Its Narratives

Cai Xiang is Professor of Chinese Literature and Director of the Research Institute for Contemporary Literature at Shanghai University.  Rebecca E. Karl is Associate Professor of History at New York University. She is the author of The Magic of Concepts: History and the Economic in Twentieth-Century China. Xueping Zhong is Professor of Chinese Literature and Culture at Tufts University and the author of Masculinity Besieged?: Issues of Modernity and Male Subjectivity in Chinese Literature of the Late Twentieth Century, also published by Duke University Press.  

A Note on Translation  vii

Acknowledgments  ix

Introduction to the English Translation / Rebecca E. Karl and Xueping Zhong  xi

Introduction. Literature and Revolutionary China  1

1. The National/The Local: Conflict, Negotiation, and Capitulation in the Revolutionary Imagination  27

2. The Mobilization Structure: The Masses, Cadres, and Intellectuals  85

3. Youth, Love, "Natural Rights," and Sex  145

4. Renarrating the History of the Revolution: From Hero to Legend  189

5. Narratives of Labor or Labor Utopias  251

6. Technological Revolution and Narratives of Working-Class Subjectivity  307

7. Cultural Politics, or Political Cultural Conflicts, in the 1960s  357

8. Conclusion. The Crisis of Socialism and Efforts to Overcome It  403

Bibliography  433

Index  447