Internet literature in China

by Hockx, Michel

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Title Statements

Full title :Internet literature in China / Michel Hockx

Summary

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.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2015

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Columbia University Press
Place of Publication:New York
Language:eng
Publication Date:2015

The Physical Object

Description:xii, 251 pages : : illustrations ; : 24 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780231160827, 0231160828
oclc:ocn908307883
LC Classification:PL2303
Dewey Decimal:895.109 006

Internet literature in China: history, technology, and conventions -- Linear innovations: Chen Cun and other chroniclers -- The bottom line: online fiction and postsocialist publishing -- Online poetry in and out of China, in Chinese, or with Chinese

Subjects

China Chinese literature Chinese literature -- History and criti… Criticism, interpretation, etc Literature and technology Literature and technology -- China Literature and the Internet Literature and the Internet -- China Littérature chinoise -- Histoire et cri… Littérature et technologie -- Chine