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This is the companion blog to Tales of Future Past; the award-winning site dedicated to how the past saw the future. While TOFP tries to tell a coherent story, this blog is more of an on-going conversation.
Most studies of Chinese literature conflate the category of the future with notions of progress and nation building, and with the utopian visions broadcast by the Maoist and post-Mao developmental state.
Most studies of Chinese literature conflate the category of the future with notions of progress and nation building, and with the utopian visions broadcast by the Maoist and post-Mao developmental state.
"Through close readings of fiction, institutional analyses, and interviews of writers and editors, Tales of Futures Past samples 1950s and post-Mao Chinese fictional conceptions of future times . . . This lucid, erudite book covers new ground . . .
"Through close readings of fiction, institutional analyses, and interviews of writers and editors, Tales of Futures Past samples 1950s and post-Mao Chinese fictional conceptions of future times . . . This lucid, erudite book covers new ground . . . Recommended."
"Through close readings of fiction, institutional analyses, and interviews of writers and editors, Tales of Futures Past samples 1950s and post-Mao Chinese fictional conceptions of future times . . . This lucid, erudite book covers new ground . . . Recommended."
Amazon.com: Tales of Futures Past: Anticipation and the Ends of Literature in Contemporary China eBook : Iovene, Paola: Kindle Store
In doing so, Paola Iovene connects the emergence of new literary genres with changing visions of the future in contemporary China. This book provides a nuanced and dynamic account of the...
In doing so, Paola Iovene connects the emergence of new literary genres with changing visions of the future in contemporary China. This book provides a nuanced and dynamic account of the relationship between state discourses, market pressures, and individual writers and texts.
By contrast, Tales of Futures Past introduces "anticipation"-the expectations that permeate life as it unfolds-as a lens through which to reexamine the textual, institutional, and experiential aspects of Chinese literary culture from the 1950s to 2011.