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Wolf Totem and the Post-Mao Utopian by Li Xiaojiang explores the controversial best-selling novel by the political economist Jiang Rong as an allegory of utopia through discussion of an encyclopaedic range of scholarship in the humanities and social sciences that offer thinking on topics introduced in the novel. In promoting the significance of utopian thought, Li stresses that the term for her study, “post-utopian criticism,” is not the same as anti-utopian criticism, but an analytical approach to criticism in order to addresses the shortcomings of postmodern and postcolonial theories applied to contemporary China, and to open up interpretive space for the specific historical experience of its people and its utopian ideals.
Price: $293.00
Pages: 574
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: East and West
Publication Date:
22 March 2018
ISBN: 9789004276727
Format: Hardcover
Li Xiaojiang (李小江) now as a Special Visiting Professor of the Institute of Literature and Honorary Curator of the Women’s Culture Museum at Shaanxi Normal University (China). Since the 1980s, she has been carrying out the pioneering work on Women’s Studies in China and made outstanding achievements in the academic field. She has been as a Visiting Scholar at McGill University in Canada, Harvard University in the USA, Ochanomizu University and Nara Women’s University in Japan, etc. and has given lectures at many academic units in Europe, America and Asia. She has served as Chief Editor of three series of books, including Chinese Women’s Oral History in the 20th Century” (2003), Engendering China (1995–2000) and the Women’ s Studies Series (1987–1992), etc. The recent monographs include Archaeology in Mind: Spiritual Archives of New China’s People (Shanghai, 2014), Dialogue with Wang Hui: A Case Studies of Scholarism in Mainland China (1990–2011) (Beijing, 2014), and Women’s Utopia (Beijing, 2016).
Edward Mansfield Gunn, Jr. received his doctorate at Columbia University (USA, 1978) and now is Professor Emeritus at Cornell University.
Edward Mansfield Gunn, Jr. received his doctorate at Columbia University (USA, 1978) and now is Professor Emeritus at Cornell University.