Perfect worlds : utopian fiction in China and the West

Perfect worlds : utopian fiction in China and the West / Douwe Fokkema.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Fokkema, Douwe Wessel, 1931-2011
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2011]
Subjects:	Chinese fiction > History and criticism. Comparative literature > Western and Chinese. Utopias in literature. Utopias. utopian literature. Literature and literary studies. Literature: history and criticism. Literary studies: general. BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Literary. LITERARY CRITICISM > General. Utopias Chinese fiction Comparative literature > Western and Chinese Utopias in literature Literatur Utopie China Westliche Welt Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Table of Contents:

Chinese Occidentalism: The Nostalgia for a Utopian Past Gives Way to the Idea of Progress: H.G. Wells and the Modern Utopia
Dystopian Fiction in the Soviet Union, Proletkult, and Socialist-Realist Utopianism
Mao Zedong's Utopian Thought and the Post-Mao Imaginative Response
Utopias, Dystopias, and Their Hybrid Variants in Europe and America since World War I
Concluding Observations.