TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kinkley,Jeffrey
TI  - Corruption and Realism in Late Socialist China: The Return of the Political Novel
SN  - 9780804768108
AV  - PL2443 
U1  - 895.1/35209358 
PY  - 2006///
CY  - Redwood City
PB  - Stanford University Press
KW  - Chinese fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism
KW  - Political fiction, Chinese -- History and criticism
KW  - Politics and literature -- China
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- 1 Introduction: Corruption, Realism, and the Return of the Political Novel -- 2 The Trendsetter: Lu Tianming's Heaven Above -- 3 The Banned Blockbuster: Chen Fang's Heaven's Wrath -- 4 Climax: The Alarum and Standard-Bearer- Zhang Ping's Choice -- 5 Anticorruption by Indirection: Wang Yuewen's National Portrait -- 6 Dirt Plus Soap Equals Pay Dirt: Liu Ping's Dossier on Smuggling -- 7 Chinese Realism, Popular Culture, and the Critics -- 8 Conclusion: The Chinese Discourse of Corruption- and Its Limits -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Character List -- Index
N2  - The first analysis in any language of China's recent epic novels about official corruption, this book explores how Chinese authors treat the theme of official malfeasance in mass-market thrillers, how those works reflect modern life, and how they approach the taboo subject of regime change
UR  - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=3037551
ER  -