[PDF] The Execution Of Mayor Yin And Other Stories From The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution Revised Edition eBook

Author : Ruoxi [Jo-Hsi] Chen
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 27,58 MB
Release : 2004-07-21
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780253110947

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Praise for the first edition: "... in the great tradition of Orwell and Solzhenitsyn; its true subject is the survival -- and sometimes the defeat -- of the human spirit in its lonely quest for integrity." -- Time "The almost childlike directness of Chen's tales... is captured in the very lightly revised translations of this new edition... Highly recommended." -- Choice A classic of modern world literature, this collection of stories provides a vivid and poignant eyewitness view of everyday life in China during the Cultural Revolution. For this edition, Howard Goldblatt has thoroughly revised the text and updated it to Pinyin romanization. In a new introduction, Perry Link reflects on the book's significance in the post-Tiananmen era. Twenty-five years after its first publication, The Execution of Mayor Yin has lost none of its power to move the reader, and remains unmatched as a document of the period.

Author : Chen Jo-Hsi
Publisher :
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 21,5 MB
Release : 1979
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780253202314

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Eight stories displaying anger, melancholy, and satire reflect the dissident literature of contemporary China and the reality of life during and after the Cultural Revolution.

Author : Ruoxi Chen
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 47,36 MB
Release : 2004-07-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780253216908

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Annotation A classic of modern world literature, this collection of stories provides a vivid eyewitness view of everyday life in China during the Cultural Revolution. For this edition, the text has been thoroughly revised and updated to Pinyin romanization. A new introduction reflects on the book's significance in the post-Tianamen era.

Author : Jeffrey Kinkley
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 24,45 MB
Release : 2006-10-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780804768108

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As China's centrally planned economy and welfare state have given way to a more loosely controlled version of "late socialism," public concern about economic reform's downside has found expression in epic novels about official corruption and its effects. While the media shied away from dealing with these issues, novelists stepped in to fill the void. "Anti-corruption fiction" exploded onto the marketplace and into public consciousness, spawning popular films and television series until a clampdown after 2002 that ended China's first substantial realist fiction since the 1989 Beijing massacre. With frankness and imagination seldom allowed journalists, novelists have depicted the death of China's rust-belt industries, the gap between rich and poor, "social unrest"—i.e., riots—and the questionable new practices of entrenched communist party rulers. Corruption and Realism examines this rebirth of the Chinese political novel and its media adaptations, explaining how the works reflect contemporary Chinese life and how they embody Chinese traditions of social criticism, literary realism, and contemplation of taboo subjects. This is the first book to investigate such novels and includes excerpts from personal interviews with China's three most famous anticorruption novelists.

Author : Frank Dikötter
Publisher : Bloomsbury Press
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 24,4 MB
Release : 2017-06-06
Category : History
ISBN : 1632864231

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The concluding volume--following Mao's Great Famine and The Tragedy of Liberation--in Frank Dikötter's award-winning trilogy chronicling the Communist revolution in China. After the economic disaster of the Great Leap Forward that claimed tens of millions of lives from 1958–1962, an aging Mao Zedong launched an ambitious scheme to shore up his reputation and eliminate those he viewed as a threat to his legacy. The Cultural Revolution's goal was to purge the country of bourgeois, capitalistic elements he claimed were threatening genuine communist ideology. Young students formed the Red Guards, vowing to defend the Chairman to the death, but soon rival factions started fighting each other in the streets with semiautomatic weapons in the name of revolutionary purity. As the country descended into chaos, the military intervened, turning China into a garrison state marked by bloody purges that crushed as many as one in fifty people. The Cultural Revolution: A People's History, 1962–1976 draws for the first time on hundreds of previously classified party documents, from secret police reports to unexpurgated versions of leadership speeches. After the army itself fell victim to the Cultural Revolution, ordinary people used the political chaos to resurrect the market and hollow out the party's ideology. By showing how economic reform from below was an unintended consequence of a decade of violent purges and entrenched fear, The Cultural Revolution casts China's most tumultuous era in a wholly new light.

Author : Wenfang Tang
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 21,49 MB
Release : 2000-01-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780521778657

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This book examines how urban China is experiencing the shift from a planned to a market economy.