Socialist Imagination in Rural China: a Study of Novels from the 1940s to the 1970s
by Guo Wenyuan
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The imagination of the socialist modernization process in rural China in novels from the 1940s to the 1970s was full of richness and complexity. They either reconstructed the ethical order of rural people in the way of rural modern local imagination, or used rural class and revolutionary consciousness to think about the subjectivity of cadres and urban youth, or used narratives of virtue to advertise the future society, which made the imagination of future society lose the possibility of practice. The emergence and concealment of discourse and the gaps in narrative make the discourses that characterize modernity such as literacy, hygiene, efficiency, and technology become ambiguous. As a kind of literature that imagines a new social order, the identification, love and imagination of rural socialism make this literature full of youthful atmosphere, bright color and romantic passion. In the "Short Twentieth Century", the appearance of this piece of literature highlights the efforts of socialist country literature to confirm its own cultural identity in the context of globalization.
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