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The Edge of Knowing: Dreams, History, and Realism in Modern Chinese Literature

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Reveals the historical impact of dream rhetoric on Chinese modernity and nation-building

Realism and the rhetoric of dreams intersected in modern Chinese literature from the May Fourth Era in the early twentieth century through the period just following the end of the Cultural Revolution in 1976. The Edge of Knowing investigates this relationship, showing how writers’ attention to dreams demonstrates the multiple influences of Western psychology, utopian desire for revolutionary change, and ...