Corruption and Realism in Late Socialist China: The Return of the Political Novel by Jeffrey Kinkley - 2006-10-26

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United States.: Stanford University Press.. 2007.. viii + 289pp, index, bibliography, notes, character list, some creasing corner of leaves, dustjacket a little sunned along extremity, otherwise very good hardback copy. "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… Read More

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Stanford Univ Pr, 2006. Hardcover. New. 1st edition. 289 pages. 9.00x6.25x0.75 inches.

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