In the 20th century, Chinese elites viewed the division between intellectuals and peasants as a central concern of literature, and focused on the confrontation between the writer/intellectual self and the peasant "other." The author argues that in the process, they created the "peasantry," the downtrodden masses seen as proper objects of political action and shifting ideological agendas.
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In the 20th century, Chinese elites viewed the division between intellectuals and peasants as a central concern of literature, and focused on the confrontation between the writer/intellectual self and the peasant "other." The author argues that in the process, they created the "peasantry," the downtrodden masses seen as proper objects of political action and shifting ideological agendas.
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Minor rubbing. A small light stain to top page-edge. VG., dustwr. 23x16cm, x, 321 pp. Contents: Introduction: A Literature "Out of the Ruins"? ; From Tradition to Modernity: Intellectual & Peasant in Transition; Language & Textuality: Toward an Analytical Methodology; Lu Xun & the Crisis of the Writing Self; Zhao Shuli: The "Making" of a Model Peasant Writer; Reassessing the Past in the "New Era": Gao Xiaosheng; The Post-Modern "Search for Roots" in Han Shaogong, Mo Yan, & Wang Anyi; Epilogue, or, What Next?