... of the period after the revolution and the crises that revolutionary China faced, including the extent to which these were manifested and actively addressed in the literature of socialist China. Rather than passively reflecting the challenges and crises, however, Cai argues that the seventeen-year literature...

... of life are possible here? Every state in the United States has a surveillance system in place to identify prenatal substance use exposure; seventeen states consider substance abuse during pregnancy to be child abuse; three consider it grounds for civil commitment, or incarceration. On the blocks...

... of the seventeen years (1949–66), and particularly of the late 1950s, during the Great Leap Forward’s push toward heavy industrialization at breakneck speeds. Demonstrating that the socialist revolution was not merely about modernization, Cai takes seriously the fact that the real challenge of cultural...