Finding a Place
Mainland Chinese Fiction in the 2000s
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3662864 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Julia Lovell (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 71 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 7-32 |
| Publication date | 2012-02-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of Asian Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-9118 • E-ISSN: 1752-0401 |
| Publisher | Duke University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0021911811002993 |
| OpenAlex | W1981739267 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 12 |
The political, economic and social changes experienced by China over the past decade have been mirrored by transformations in the literary realm. Writers, editors, critics and readers have contended with the acceleration of commercialisation, the rise of the Internet, and the Communist Party's subtly changing attitude to creative freedom. This essay examines the creative responses of three critically acclaimed generations of novelists - born between the 1950s and 1980s - to this new climate. It considers the way in which writers have become entrepreneurs, managing their own personality cults over the Internet and through media spin. It discusses widespread corruption in literary reviewing; the weaknesses in editorial standards that affect the work of even the most mature voices writing today; and the fluid way in which novelists often abandon fiction for other professions or expressive forms, such as film. Finally, it considers the limits of literary freedom in China's one-party cultural system
Aesthetics · Art · China · Communism · Language change · Literature · Mainland China · Media studies · Political science · Politics · Realm · Sociology · The Internet · Chinese history and philosophy · History · Law
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,25 |
| Citation span | 2014 - 2025 (12) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |