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The Reading of Russian Literature in China

Part of the Palgrave Studies in Cultural and Intellectual History Book Series

DOI: 10.1057/9780230106819

ISBN: 978-1-349-38480-8

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US - Springer Journals

Nov 28, 2015

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Chapter 1Introduction

Gamsa, Mark

Pages: 1 –12

[Two of the world’s most distinct cultures exhibit a set of broadly similar characteristics in the conceptions of literature that were prevalent in them during the twentieth century. In both, literature enjoyed a standing of extraordinary importance in society—a position earning it the suspicion...
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Chapter 2The Russian Classics as a Moral Example

Gamsa, Mark

Pages: 13 –34

[The Chinese writers who, looking for direction to the West in the 1910s and 1920s, rebelled against the aesthetics and preoccupations of traditional Chinese literature, nonetheless accepted the age-old premise of literature as the conveyer of morality. Certainly, most of them would argue that...
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Chapter 3Writers and Readers

Gamsa, Mark

Pages: 35 –65

[The new Russian literature emerged from trie decade of arguments on trie liberation of trie serfs, which preceded the proclamation of this reform by Alexander II in 1861. It developed at the same time with the campaign against autocracy, which would reach a climax in the “Land and Freedom”...
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Chapter 4The Agents of Soviet Literature

Gamsa, Mark

Pages: 67 –93

[The new Soviet fiction was not to be found in the library of the Young Men’s Christian Association (YMCA) in Peking, or the Oriental Library of the Commercial Press in Shanghai, where readers such as Zheng Zhenduo borrowed the books of Russian classics and prerevolutionary modernists in English...
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Chapter 5Soviet Socialist Realism as a Manual of Practice

Gamsa, Mark

Pages: 95 –129

[Since the days of Thucydides, the Western mind was trained in the distinction between two “ways of talking”: the mythical/fictional, in which (to give an example closer to our time) Sherlock Holmes lived in Baker Street, and the historical/truthful, in which he did not exist.1 In traditional...
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Chapter 6Afterword

Gamsa, Mark

Pages: 131 –141

[In accepting “socialist realism” as the rightful successor of nineteenth-century realism, and in promoting a new “socialist humanism” as heir to the humanism of Russian literature in the late tsarist era, Soviet and Chinese literary doctrines converged. In their imitation of a Soviet myth about...

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