Revolution and Its Narratives

<div><div>Published in China in 2010 <i>Revolution and Its Narratives</i> is a historical literary and critical account of the cultural production of the narratives of China's socialist revolution. Through theoretical empirical and textual analysis of major and minor novels dramas short stories and cinema Cai Xiang offers a complex study that exceeds the narrow confines of existing views of socialist aesthetics. By engaging with the relationship among culture history and politics in the context of the revolutionary transformation of Chinese society and arts Cai illuminates the utopian promise as well as the ultimate impossibility of socialist cultural production. Translated annotated and edited by Rebecca E. Karl and Xueping Zhong this translation presents Cai's influential work to English-language readers for the first time.</div><div> </div></div><div> </div>