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Heroes of China's Great Lea...
Heroes of China's Great Leap Forward presents contrasting narratives of the most ambitious and disastrous mass movement in modern Chinese history. The objective of the Great Leap, when it was launched in the late 1950s, was to catapult China into the ranks of the great military and industrial powers with no assistance from the outside world; it resulted in a famine that killed tens of millions of the nation's peasants.Li Zhun's "A Brief Biography of Li Shuangshuang," written while the movement was underway, celebrates the Great Leap as it was supposed to be: a time of optimism, dynamism, and shared purpose. A spirited young peasant woman, freed from the restrictions of home life, launches a canteen and wins the recognition of authorities and the admiration of her husband. The story-and the film that followed it-made Li Shuangshuang the greatest fictional heroine of the Great Leap. In contrast, Zhang Yigong's short novel The Story of the Criminal Li Tongzhong, written two decades later, was one of the first works published in China to suggest a much darker side to the Great Leap. A village official leads a raid on a state granary to feed starving peasants; he is later arrested and dies a criminal. Although Zhang stopped short of portraying the horrors of famine, his tone of moral outrage provides a rejoinder to the triumphalism of "Li Shuangshuang."The stories are accompanied by an introduction to the Great Leap and portraits of the two writers, including their recollections of that traumatic time and the creation of their very different heroes
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monografia Rebiun34603450 https://catalogo.rebiun.org/rebiun/record/Rebiun34603450 m|||||o||d|||||||| cr#-n--------- 190828s2010 hiu fo d z eng d 0-8248-3759-2 1-4416-7150-1 10.1515/9780824837594 doi CBUC 991013158589806708 DE-B1597 eng DE-B1597 rda eng a-cc--- hiu US-HI HIS008000 bisacsh 895.1/35208 22 Heroes of China's Great Leap Forward Two Stories Richard King Honolulu University of Hawaii Press [2010] Honolulu Honolulu University of Hawaii Press 2010 1 online resource (128 p.) 1 online resource (128 p.) Text txt computer c online resource cr Description based upon print version of record Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- A Brief Biography of Li Shuangshuang Zhun, Li. -- The Story of the Criminal Li Tongzhong Yigong, Zhang. -- Glossary -- About the Editor Heroes of China's Great Leap Forward presents contrasting narratives of the most ambitious and disastrous mass movement in modern Chinese history. The objective of the Great Leap, when it was launched in the late 1950s, was to catapult China into the ranks of the great military and industrial powers with no assistance from the outside world; it resulted in a famine that killed tens of millions of the nation's peasants.Li Zhun's "A Brief Biography of Li Shuangshuang," written while the movement was underway, celebrates the Great Leap as it was supposed to be: a time of optimism, dynamism, and shared purpose. A spirited young peasant woman, freed from the restrictions of home life, launches a canteen and wins the recognition of authorities and the admiration of her husband. The story-and the film that followed it-made Li Shuangshuang the greatest fictional heroine of the Great Leap. In contrast, Zhang Yigong's short novel The Story of the Criminal Li Tongzhong, written two decades later, was one of the first works published in China to suggest a much darker side to the Great Leap. A village official leads a raid on a state granary to feed starving peasants; he is later arrested and dies a criminal. Although Zhang stopped short of portraying the horrors of famine, his tone of moral outrage provides a rejoinder to the triumphalism of "Li Shuangshuang."The stories are accompanied by an introduction to the Great Leap and portraits of the two writers, including their recollections of that traumatic time and the creation of their very different heroes English Chinese fiction- 20th century- Translations into English Anhui (China, Provincia)- History- 1949-1976- Fiction Political fiction Electronic books King, R. Richard) editor Brief biography of Li Shuangshuang Story of the criminal Li Tongzhong 0-8248-3402-X