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MILESTONES ON A GOLDEN ROAD – Writing for Chinese Socialism, 1945-80 – by Richard King.

Published by UBC Press - ©2013 – ISBN 978-0-7748-2373-9 – 281 pages – the book measures approximately 6 x 9.

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.

The book is in  good condition; light reading wear; binding tight; date written on front cover, pages clean and crisp--no writing, no underlining, no highlighting; cover edges rubbed/chipped; top corner back cover and last few top page corners creased; normal shelf wear.  Good, tight, clean, crisp copy.

 G&M stock #1fe(burnlib22)