Tales of futures past : anticipation and the ends of literature in contemporary China /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Iovene, Paola, 1969
Published: Stanford University Press,
Publisher Address: Stanford, California :
Publication Dates: [2014]
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Subjects:
Carrier Form: xii, 225 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-214) and index.
ISBN: 9780804789370 (cloth) :
0804789371 (cloth)
Index Number: PL2303
CLC: I206.7
Call Number: I206.7/I643
Contents: How I divorced my robot wife : visionary futures between science and literature -- Translation zones : anticipating world literature in socialist China -- Accelerating literary time : metropolitan editors at work -- Futures en abyme : poetry in strange loops -- A clean place to die : fog, toxicity, and shame in End of spring in Jiangnan -- Appendix 1 : literary periodicals for internal distribution in the 1950s-1960s -- Appendix 2 : poems by Li Shangyin.