Description
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Chan presents us with a reckoning of Chinese realism that should be of interest to scholars of mimesis, psychoanalysis, socialism, socialist realism, and affect well outside of Asian Studies. . . . . An enjoyable and compelling read."
* Modern Chinese Literature and Culture *
"Contributes significantly to the discourse of the dream, which . . . is becoming increasingly relevant in the context of permeation and saturation of the slogan of the Chinese Dream in China."
* Chinese Literature: Essays, Articles, Reviews *
"A fascinating study that makes significant contributions to how we understand the relationship between time, dreaming, and materiality in modern literature."
* New Books in East Asian Studies *
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
Introduction
1. Sleeping through Catastrophe: Dreams, Cataclysmic Modernity, and the Promises of Literary Realism
2. Dreaming as Representation: Lu Xun’s Wild Grass and Realism’s Social Address
3. Realism’s Hysterical Bodies: Narrative and Oneiric Counternarrative in Mao Dun’s Fiction
4. Sleepless Nights in Fast Socialism: Dream Rhetoric and Fiction in the Mao Era
5. Dream Fugue: Jiang Qing, the End of the Cultural Revolution, and Zong Pu’s Fiction
Conclusion: Lu Xun and the Dreams of Politics and Literature
Glossary of Chinese Characters
Notes
References
Index
