Chinese Educated Youth Literature: Ambivalent Bodies and Personal Literary Histories

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Gabriel F. Y. Tsang

Chinese Educated Youth Literature

Ambivalent Bodies and Personal Literary Histories

Gabriel F. Y. Tsang

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Routledge
14 October 2024

Literature: history & criticism; Regional studies; Asian history; Age groups: adolescents; Politics & government

Series: Routledge Contemporary China Series

This book explores the literary history of the zhiqing, Chinese educated youth, during the liberal 1980s era of the PRC.

By incorporating personal experiences, literary representation, shared history, and theory, it argues that attention to bodies’ physical/physiological condition, as represented in their fictional works, can reveal their attitudes toward the shifting and anomalous socio-political environments, both at the time of their rustication in Mao Zedong’s era and at the time of writing about their experiences in Deng Xiaoping’s cities. It highlights the ideological transformation of educated youth writers’ malleable fictional bodies, which preserved and encoded their private ambivalence and dynamic compromises with political and literary dilemmas. By studying these ""fictional bodies,"" this book deciphers the specific significance of labor, hunger, disability, and sexuality, negating the simplification of the fabricated embodiment as only containing and delivering iconoclastic spirit, sincere patriotism, personal struggle, socialist ideological control, and feminine self-consciousness.

Exploring the community of Chinese educated youth, of which Xi Jinping was one, this will be a valuable resource to students and scholars of Comparative literature, Modern Chinese literature, and Modern Chinese history.

By: Gabriel F. Y. Tsang
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 489g
ISBN: 9781032823133
ISBN 10: 1032823135
Series: Routledge Contemporary China Series
Pages: 164
Publication Date: 14 October 2024
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Gabriel F. Y. Tsang is Assistant Professor in the Department of Chinese Language and Literature at Hong Kong Baptist University.