... to the scene of the new millennium, observing the dystopian and heterotopian inclinations in fictional practice as opposed to the utopian aspiration in political discourse. 44 Lu, Wild Grass , 8 . References Baidu baike 百度百科 [ Baidu Encyclopedia ], s.v. “Zhongguo meng” 中國夢 [ China Dream...

...Cara Healey Copyright © 2021 Lingnan University 2021 Lorenzo Andolfatto's Hundred Days' Literature: Chinese Utopian Fiction at the End of Empire, 1902–1910 convincingly argues that the brief flourishing of utopian fiction ( wutuobang xiaoshuo 烏托邦小說) in the last decade of the Qing dynasty...

...Enhua Zhang ezhang@llc.umass.edu Utopian Ruins: A Memorial Museum of the Mao Era . Jie Li . Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2020 . 384 pp. Copyright © 2022 Lingnan University 2022 History and memory have been the foci of Chinese studies during the past two decades...

...Ban Wang Abstract “Ecotopia” describes the social ecology of a world whose socioeconomic institutions are premised on the utopian dream of the reconciliation of the human and nature. The Mars Republic of Hao Jingfang's novel Vagabonds is built through advanced technologies that allow humans...

... accumulation, profit, and growth to the destruction of ecospheres and human communities. Alternatively, eco-socialism sees humans as an organism integral to nature but believes that human production must protect human lives and community from nature's blind forces in order to survive and to thrive. The utopian...

...Ban Wang Abstract As a champion of May Fourth enlightenment and a critic of Chinese tradition, Lu Xun is less understood as a prescient critic of the myth of science and technological rationality. Walter Benjamin invoked the utopian reconciliation of humans and nature from premodern culture...

...Ban Wang Abstract Primarily thought of as a critic of Chinese tradition, Lu Xun is less understood as a critic of technoscientific rationality. Walter Benjamin invoked the utopian reconciliation of humans and nature from premodern culture in critiques of modernity. In the same vein, Lu Xun...

..., Michael . “ Bakhtin's Carnival as Critique .” Utopian Studies 3 , no. 2 ( 1992 ): 21 – 49 . Grant, John . “ A Stranger Fate for Politics: Jameson's Dialectic of Utopian Thought .” In Political Uses of Utopia , edited by S. D. Chrostowska and James D. Ingram , 165 – 76 . New York...

... utopianism in the post-Mao era. In this article I offer a reconstruction of the intellectual dialogue between Kantian aesthetician Li Zehou 李澤厚 (1930–) and humanist literary critic Liu Zaifu 劉再復 (1941–). By comparing Li's ruminations on “cultures of pleasure” ( legan wenhua 樂感文化) and Liu's treatises...

... by private property, class exploitative forms of material necessity or scarcity, and the imperative for endless profit and accumulation. Ecological utopianism “hinges on a new social union of producers and communities with the conditions of production.” 27 This ideal represents a collective appropriation...

... Mass , 16 . 48 Gray. Black Mass , 19 . On Marxism and utopianism, see also von Boeckmann, “Marxism, Morality, and the Politics of Desire.” 49 Liu, “Huangpi shu' yu 1968–1973 nian Beijing dixia shige yanjiu.” See also Larson, “Socialist Bildungsroman.” 50 Bei, Shibai zhi...

.... 1 , translated by F. W. Mote . Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press , 1979 . Hsiao, Kung-Chuan . A Modern China and a New World: K'ang Yu-wei, Reformer and Utopian, 1858–1927 . Seattle : University of Washington Press , 1975 . Hua, Yuanyuan . “ The Dual Alienation...

... the Manchukuo ideal of racial harmony. An's story above, however, claims that the city is “an abundant anti-utopian space” and is therefore in direct opposition to the farming villages that are the only genuine sites of production for the nation. 7 Such anti-urbanism can also be found in the Manchukuo Korean...

... of production at the turn of the twentieth century and is happening with intensity in the twenty-first. Although socialism, in its Enlightenment emphasis on productionism and conquest of nature, also produced dire ecological and social consequences, the utopian goals draw energy and inspiration from the notion...

..., and race and all arbitrary shackles in order to bring diverse people and clashing nations into a cosmopolitan community. If ecological motifs could be recovered from Kang's utopian visions, they derive from a critique of the oppressive social, political, and gender relations. Upholding Confucian...

... Jacket , as noted above, two American GIs offer a Vietnamese prostitute five dollars instead of fifteen. 24 Teng, “Eurasian Hybridity in Chinese Utopian Visions” ; Teng, Eurasian . 25 Honderich, “Atlanta Spa Shootings.” 26 Pillai, Yellow Horse, and Jeung, “Report,” 6...

... Illuminations from the Past (2004), David Der-wei Wang's The Monster That Is History (2004), Michael Berry's A History of Pain (2008), Kirk A. Denton's Exhibiting the Past: Historical Memory and the Politics of Museums in Postsocialist China (2014), and Jie Li's Utopian Ruins: A Memorial Museum...

... to claim for themselves a liberal agenda by depicting the infinite complexity and ambiguity of human life, as well as intentionally asserting a critical distance from the then emerging ideology of class struggle and various forms of utopian vision. In this chapter, the author also accounts for poetry...

... and postsocialist era from the 1980s through the twenty-first century, this utopian ideal of labor has been waylaid and forgotten. The powerful sway of market economy and the developmental imperatives are creating new metabolic rifts between humans and nature, between producers and land. The neoliberal agenda...

... was increasingly engaged in reforming his field. He questioned if the dialectic between subjectivity and history can be reduced to formulism while trying to construe the intricate relationships between party politics and revolutionary utopianism. Moreover, thanks to his personal interactions with veteran figures...