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Milestones on a Golden Road

Writing for Chinese Socialism, 1945-80

by (author) Richard King

Publisher
UBC Press
Initial publish date
Jan 2013
Category
China, Contemporary (1945-), Asian
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9780774823722
    Publish Date
    Jan 2013
    List Price
    $95.00
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780774823739
    Publish Date
    Dec 2013
    List Price
    $32.95
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9780774823746
    Publish Date
    Jan 2013
    List Price
    $125.00

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In Milestones on a Golden Road, Richard King presents pivotal works of fiction published under the watchful eye of China’s Communist regime between 1945 and 1980. Addressing questions of literary production, King looks at how writers dealt with shifting ideological demands, what indigenous and imported traditions inspired them, and how they were able to depict a utopian Communist future to their readers, even as the present took a very different turn. Early “red classics” were followed by works featuring increasingly lurid images of joyful socialism, and later by fiction exposing the Mao era as an age of irrationality, arbitrary rule, and suffering – a Golden Road that had led to nowhere.

About the author

Richard King owned Paragraph Bookstore in Montreal and is a former President of the Canadian Booksellers Association. His first novel, That Sleep of Death, was on the Gazette bestseller list for nine weeks. In his spare time, King does Bikram Yoga, runs with a group from the Westmount Running Room and volunteers in the Emergency Department at the Jewish General Hospital. He insists most of the characters in Accounting for Crime are fictitious.

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