The Politics of Cultural Capital: China's Quest for a Nobel Prize in Literature 9780824864958

In the 1980s China’s politicians, writers, and academics began to raise an increasingly urgent question: why had a Chine

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The Politics of Cultural Capital: China's Quest for a Nobel Prize in Literature
 9780824864958

Table of contents :
Contents
Acknowledgments
Prologue
Chapter One. Introduction: Diagnosing the Complex
Chapter Two. The Nobel Prize for Literature Philosophy and Practice
Chapter Three. Ideas of Authorship and the Nobel Prize in China, 1900 – 1976
Chapter Four. China’s Search for a Nobel Prize in Literature, 1979 – 2000
Chapter Five. The Nobel Prize, 2000
Afterword
Notes
Glossary of chinese terms
Bibliography
Index

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