Literary Dissent in Communist China

by Merle Goldman

Book Overview

In modern China, literature has been regarded as a vehicle of political and idea logical dissent, a concept that has persisted under communism. This study exhaustively analyzes the conflict between the Chinese Communist party and the intellectuals, particularly the writers, in the crucial decades of the 1940's and 1950's. By singling out individual writers as egregious examples, party leaders, through a series of thought-control campaigns, have tried...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674188829
• ISBN13: 9780674188822
• Release Date: February 1967
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"