Douwe Fokkema

Perfect Worlds (eBook, ePUB)

Utopian Fiction in China and the West

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Perfect Worlds offers an extensive historical analysis of utopian narratives in the Chinese and Euro-American traditions. This comparative study discusses, among other things, More's criticism of Plato, the European orientalist search for utopia in China, Wells's Modern Utopia and his talk with Stalin, Chinese writers constructing their Confucianist utopia, traces of Daoism in Mao Zedong's utopianism and politics and finally the rise of dystopian writing, a negative expression of the utopian impulse, in Europe and America as well as in China.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 448
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040787410
• Artikelnr.: 75564495

Autorenporträt

Douwe Fokkema is Professor emeritus of Comparative Literature, Utrecht University, the Netherlands.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
The Utopia of Thomas More
From Rational Eutopia to Grotesque Dystopia
Interlude: The Island Syndrome from Atlantis to Lanzarote and Penglai
Enlightenment Utopias
Orientalism: European Writers Searching for Utopia in China
Chinese Philosophers and Writers Constructing Their Own Utopias
Small-Scale Socialist Experiments
or "The New Jerusalem in Duodecimo"
Chernyshevsky's What Is to Be Done? and Dostoevsky's Dystopian Foresight
When Socialist Utopianism Meets Politics ...
Bellamy's Solidarity and Its Feminist Mirror Image in Herland
Chinese Occidentalism: The Nostalgia for a Utopian Past Gives Way to the Idea of Progress
H. G. Wells and the Modern Utopia
Dystopian Fiction in the Soviet Union
Proletkult
and Socialist-Realist Utopianism
Mao Zedong's Utopian Thought and the Post-Mao Imaginative Response
Utopias
Dystopias
and Their Hybrid Variants in Europe and America since World War I
Concluding Observations
References
Subject Index
Index of Names