A literature of protest, a literature of change: On the role of directed culture in Chinese literature

In: Issues & studies: a social science quarterly on China, Taiwan, and East Asian affairs, Band 28, Heft 3, S. 60-75

Abstract

Research from a number of China scholars in recent years indicates that protest and "dissent" literatures are much less forces for change, as has been previously assumed, and more examples of the continuing power of the "current system" in the People's Republic of China (PRC). According to the author, such literatures now appear as obstacles to the "forces for change" in this country. He argues that the form and underlying values of much PRC dissent in fact echo the assumptions about public life which support the rule of the Chinese Communist Party. (DÜI-Sen)