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The Subplot: What China Is Reading and Why It Matters

The Subplot: What China Is Reading and Why It Matters

Walsh, Megan

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Literary CriticismGeneral Political ScienceGeneral Racism & Ethnic Studies

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ISBN10: 1735913669
ISBN13: 9781735913667
Publisher: Columbia Global Reports
Published: Feb 8 2022
Pages: 136
Weight: 0.35
Height: 0.50 Width: 4.90 Depth: 7.40
Language: English
China's authoritarian political climate--also known as the weather or the gray zone--influences not only how writers write, but how readers read. This well-documented climate of censorship and propaganda can make foreign readers rather snobby about Chinese literature, often without having read any of it. However, most Chinese writers who continue to live and work in mainland China write neither what their government nor foreign readers want or expect. Young writers embrace online platforms and self-publishing fiction--Chinese online fiction is the largest publishing platform in the world. Megan Walsh surveys a whole new taxonomy of Chinese literature that have risen in the last 20 years: a vast migrant-worker poetry movement; class-conscious youngsters; a stressful generational divide; rotten girl homoerotics; underground comics; face-slapping web novels; CCP-friendly corruption capers and ethnic outsider stories, not to mention what is widely hailed internationally as, a golden-age of Chinese sci-fi.

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