Description: Published in China in 2010 and appearing here in English for the first time, Revolution and its Narratives is a historical, literary, and critical account of the cultural production of the narratives of China's socialist revolution that illuminates the complexity of socialist art, culture, and politics.
Review Quotes: "Cai Xiang's study of socialist literary and cultural imaginaries, originally published in 2010, is one of the most provocative books on post-1949 Chinese literature and culture appearing in Chinese since the beginning of the new century. Its English version, Revolution and Its Narratives, brilliantly edited and meticulously translated by Rebecca E. Karl and Xueping Zhong, makes a significant and timely contribution to ongoing debates about the cultural-political legacies of revolutionary China."--Pu Wang "The China Quarterly"