Chinese Realism, Popular Culture, and the Critics
Chinese Realism, Popular Culture, and the Critics
This chapter examines realism as a coherent and valuable modern Chinese tradition. It shows that realism in Chinese anticorruption fiction was a critical realism of some depth, not just a schlock realism which justified the critics' neglect. The chapter discusses the place of Chinese realism in theory and history, and contends that most fiction about corruption and officialdom does not fit the high theorists' idea of China as postsocialist, postpolitical, or postbureaucratic. It argues that the main problem with anticorruption fiction is its not being part of mass culture, and being part of purely nonofficial culture.
Keywords: Chinese realism, anticorruption fiction, officialdom, mass culture, nonofficial culture
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