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Hockx, Michel (2015) Internet Literature in China. New York: Columbia University Press. (Global Chinese Culture)

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Abstract

Since the 1990s, Chinese literary enthusiasts have explored new spaces for creative expression online, giving rise to a modern genre that has transformed Chinese culture and society. Ranging from the self-consciously avant-garde to the pornographic, web-based writing has introduced innovative forms, themes, and practices into Chinese literature and its aesthetic traditions. Conducting the first comprehensive survey in English of this phenomenon, Michel Hockx describes in detail the types of Chinese literature taking shape right now online and their novel aesthetic, political, and ideological challenges. Offering a unique portal into postsocialist Chinese culture, he presents a complex portrait of internet culture and control in China that avoids one-dimensional representations of oppression. The Chinese government still strictly regulates the publishing world, yet it is growing increasingly tolerant of internet literature and its publishing practices while still drawing a clear yet ever-shifting ideological bottom line. Hockx interviews online authors, publishers, and censors, capturing the convergence of mass media, creativity, censorship, and free speech that is upending traditional hierarchies and conventions within China--and across Asia.

Item Type: Authored Books
Keywords: China, Internet, literature, socialism, postsocialism, publishing, censorship, fiction, poetry, electronic literature, cyberliterature, online culture,
SOAS Departments & Centres: Legacy Departments > Faculty of Languages and Cultures > Centre for Cultural, Literary and Postcolonial Studies
Legacy Departments > Faculty of Languages and Cultures > Department of the Languages and Cultures of China and Inner Asia
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Subjects: H Social Sciences > HM Sociology
H Social Sciences > HX Socialism. Communism. Anarchism
N Fine Arts > NX Arts in general
P Language and Literature > PI Oriental languages and literatures
P Language and Literature > PN Literature (General) > PN0080 Criticism
P Language and Literature > PN Literature (General) > PN0441 Literary History
Q Science > QA Mathematics > QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science
ISBN: 9780231160827
DOI (Digital Object Identifier): https://doi.org/10.7312/columbia/9780231160827.001.0001
Date Deposited: 18 Feb 2015 16:38
URI: https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/id/eprint/19586
Related URLs: http://cup.colu ... a/9780231160827 (Publisher URL)

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