1st Edition
Chinese Educated Youth Literature Ambivalent Bodies and Personal Literary Histories
By Gabriel F. Y. Tsang
Copyright 2025
180 Pages
7 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
180 Pages
7 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
180 Pages
7 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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This book explores the literary history of the zhiqing , Chinese educated youth, during the liberal 1980s era of the PRC.
By incorporating personal experiences, literary representation, shared history, and theory, it argues that attention to bodies’ physical/physiological condition, as represented in their fictional works, can reveal their attitudes toward the shifting and anomalous... Read more
Introduction. Questioning the fictional remembrance of bodies past 1. Representing Laboring Bodies from Victims to Heroes 2. Hungry Fictional Bodies as Personal and Cultural Allegories 3. Privatization and Socialization of Impaired/Disabled Bodies 4. Socialism and the Experiment of Writing Female Bodies Conclusion. Back to our own bodies
Biography
Gabriel F. Y. Tsang is Assistant Professor in the Department of Chinese Language and Literature at Hong Kong Baptist University.
