Words and Their Stories (Handbook of Oriental Studies: Section 4 China)

353 Pages·2010·1.83 MB·english

by  Edited by Wang Ban

Words and Their Stories
Handbook of Oriental Studies
Handbuch der Orientalistik
SECTION FOUR
China
Edited by
Stephen F. Teiser
Martin Kern
Timothy Brook
VOLUME 27
Words and Their Stories
Essays on the Language of the Chinese Revolution
Edited by
Ban Wang
LEIDEN • BOSTON
2011
This book is printed on acid-free paper.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Words and their stories : essays on the language of the Chinese revolution / [edited]
by Wang Ban.
p. cm. — (Handbook of Oriental studies. Section four, China, ISSN 0169-9520 ;
v. 27 = Handbuch der orientalistik)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-90-04-18860-0 (hard cover : alk. paper)
1. Revolutions—China—History—20th century—Terminology. 2. China—Politics
and government—1949–1976—Terminology. 3. China—Politics and government—
1912–1949—Terminology. 4. Revolutionaries—China—Language. 5. Political
culture—China—History—20th century. 6. Literature and revolutions—China—
History—20th century. 7. Politics and literature—China—History—20th century.
8. Discourse analysis—Political aspects—China. I. Wang, Ban, 1957– II. Title.
III. Series.
DS777.56.W67 2010
951.04’2—dc22
2010023733
ISSN 0169-9520
ISBN 978 90 04 18860 0
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CONTENTS
List of Contributors ................................................................... vii
Understanding the Chinese Revolution through Words:
An Introduction ..................................................................... 1
Ban Wang
1. Revolution: From Literary Revolution to Revolutionary
Literature ............................................................................ 15
Jianhua Chen
2. The Long March ............................................................... 33
Enhua Zhang
3. Rectification: Party Discipline, Intellectual Remolding,
and the Formation of a Political Community ................... 51
Kirk A. Denton
4. Worker-Peasant-Soldier Literature .................................... 65
Xiaomei Chen
5. Steel Is Made through Persistent Tempering ................... 85
Xinmin Liu
6. Socialist Realism ................................................................ 101
Ban Wang
7. Political Lyric ..................................................................... 119
Xin Ning
8. Writing the Actual ............................................................. 135
Charles A. Laughlin
9. Nowhere in the World Does There Exist Love or Hatred
without Reason .................................................................. 149
Haiyan Lee
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10. Promote Physical Culture and Sport, Improve the
People’s Constitution ......................................................... 171
Xiaoning Lu
11. Typical People in Typical Circumstances ......................... 185
Richard King
12. Use the Past to Serve the Present; the Foreign to Serve
China .................................................................................. 205
Tina Mai Chen
13. Women Can Hold Up Half the Sky ................................. 227
Xueping Zhong
14. Let a Hundred Flowers Blossom, Let a Hundred
Schools of Thought Contend ............................................ 249
Richard Kraus
15. They Love Battle Array, Not Silks and Satins ................. 263
Tina Mai Chen
16. The Three Prominences .................................................... 283
Yizhong Gu
17. Revolutionary Narrative in the Seventeen Years Period ..... 305
Guo Bingru
Bibliography ................................................................................... 319
Index ............................................................................................... 335
LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS
Jianhua Chen, Ph.D. (2002) in Chinese Literature, Harvard Univer-
sity, is Associate Professor of Literature at the Hong Kong University
of Science and Technology. He has published many articles on Chi-
nese literary culture from the twelfth to twentieth century. His recent
books in Chinese include Revolution and Form: Mao Dun’s Early Fiction and
Chinese Literary Modernity, 1927–1930 and From Revolution to the Republic:
Literature, Film and Culture in the Republican Period.
Tina Mai Chen, Ph.D. (1999) in History, University of Wisconsin-
Madison, is Associate Professor at University of Manitoba, Canada.
She specializes in the cultural and intellectual history of Modern China,
with a particular interest in globality, Chinese nation, and socialism.
Xiaomei Chen, Ph.D. (1989) in Comparative Literature, Indiana
University, is Professor of Chinese Literature at University of Cali-
fornia at Davis. She has published Occidentalism (1995; 2002), Acting the
Right Part (Hawai’i University Press, 2002) and edited Reading the Right
Texts (2003), and Columbia Anthology of Modern Chinese Drama (2010).
Kirk A. Denton, Ph.D. (1988) in Chinese literature, University of
Toronto, is Professor of Chinese at The Ohio State University. He
is editor of the journal Modern Chinese Literature and Culture and author
of The Problematic of Self in Modern Chinese Literature: Hu Feng and Lu Ling
(Stanford UP, 1998). He is currently writing a book on the politics of
historical representation in museums in Greater China.
Yizhong Gu, is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Comparative
Literature at the University of Washington. He is currently writing his
dissertation on sacrifice and martyrdom in Modern China.
Guo Bingru, Ph.D. (2004) in literature, University of Sun Yat-san, is
associate professor of literature at Sun Yat-san University. Her publi-
cations include The “Seventeen-Year” (1949–1966) Novels Narrative Tension,
(Changsha: Yuelu Press, 2007).
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Michael Gibbs Hill, Ph.D. (2008) in Chinese Literature, Columbia
University, is Assistant Professor of Chinese and Comparative Litera-
ture at the University of South Carolina. He is completing a book
manuscript entitled Lin Shu, Inc.: A Factory of Words in Modern China.
Richard King, Ph.D (1984) in Chinese Literature, University of Brit-
ish Columbia, is Associate Professor at the University of Victoria. His
research is on modern Chinese literature and culture; also translation,
most recently Heroes of China’s Great Leap Forward (Hawai’i 2010).
Richard Curt Kraus is Professor Emeritus of Political Science, Uni-
versity of Oregon. He is the author of Class Conflict in Chinese Socialism
(1981), Pianos and Politics in China (1989), Brushes with Power (1991); and
The Party and the Arty (2004).
Charles A. Laughlin, Ph.D. (1996) in Chinese Literature, Colum-
bia University, is Ellen Bayard Weedon Chair Professor of East Asian
Studies at the University of Virginia. He has published extensively on
modern Chinese nonfiction literature including Chinese Reportage: The
Aesthetics of Historical Experience (Duke, 2002) and The Literature of Leisure
and Chinese Modernity (Hawaii, 2008).
Haiyan Lee, Ph.D. (2002) in East Asian Literature, Cornell Uni-
versity, is Assistant Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures
at Stanford University. She is the author of Revolution of the Heart: A
Genealogy of Love in China, 1900–1950 (Stanford, 2007).
Xinmin Liu, Ph.D. (1997) in Comparative Literature, Yale, is Assist-
ant Professor of Chinese Literature and Culture at the University of
Pittsburgh. He is author of many journal articles on the ethical and
aesthetic impacts of Chinese modernity on issues of education, social
progress and ecological wellbeing.
Xiaoning Lu, Ph.D. (2008) in Comparative Literature, State Uni-
versity of New York at Stony Brook, teaches in the Department of
Comparative Literature and the Department of Sinology at Ludwig-
Maximilians University of Munich, Germany. Her most recent a rticle
list of contributors ix
“Zhang Ruifang: Modelling the Social Red Star” appeared in the
Journal of Chinese Cinema in 2008.
Xin Ning, Ph.D. (2008) in Comparative Literature, Rutgers, The
State University of New Jersey, is Lecturer in Asian Languages and
Cultures Department, Rutgers University. He has published articles
on modern Chinese literature and East-West cultural relations.
Ban Wang, Ph.D. (1993) in Comparative Literature, UCLA, is the
William Haas Chair Professor in Chinese Studies at Stanford Univer-
sity. He has written on Chinese literature, film and aesthetics and is
the author of The Sublime Figure of History (1997) and Illuminations from
the Past (2004).
Enhua Zhang, Ph.D. (2007) in Chinese Literature, Columbia Uni-
versity, is Assistant Professor of Chinese Literature and Culture at the
University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
Zhong Xueping, Ph.D. (1993) in Comparative Literature, University
of Iowa, is Associate Professor of Chinese Literature and Culture at
Tufts University. She has written on contemporary Chinese literature,
film, television drama, and other related issues including Mainstream
Culture Refocused: Television Drama, Society, and Production of Meaning in
Reform Era China (University of Hawaii Press, 2010).