PERFECT WORLDS by Douwe W. Fokkema, Elrud Ibsch ( 9789089643506 )

Item Details

Title:

PERFECT WORLDS
UTOPIAN FICTION IN CHINA AND THE WEST

By:

Douwe W. Fokkema, Elrud Ibsch

Format:

Paperback

List price:

£71.95

Our price:

£64.76

Discount:

10% off

You save:

£7.19

ISBN 10:

9089643508

ISBN 13:

9789089643506

Availability:

Usually dispatched within 1-3 weeks.

Delivery rates

Stock:

Currently 0 available

Publisher:

AMSTERDAM UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

12 August, 2011

Pages:

448

Description:

An extensive historical analysis of utopian narratives in the Chinese and Euro-American traditions.

Synopsis:

Perfect Worlds offers an extensive historical analysis of utopian narratives in the Chinese and Euro-American traditions. This comparative study discusses, among other things, More's criticism of Plato, the European orientalist search for utopia in China, Wells's Modern Utopia and his talk with Stalin, Chinese writers constructing their Confucianist utopia, traces of Daoism in Mao Zedong's utopianism and politics and finally the rise of dystopian writing - a negative expression of the utopian impulse - in Europe and America as well as in China.

Publication:

Netherlands

Imprint:

Amsterdam University Press

Returns:

Returnable

Some other items by this author:

APPROACHING POSTMODERNISM

APPROACHING POSTMODERNISM (HB)

CULTURAL PARTICIPATION

CULTURAL PARTICIPATION (HB)

DIE SHOAH ERZAHLT