Perfect Worlds : Utopian Fiction in China and the West

Frontmatter -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Utopia of Thomas More -- 3. From Rational Eutopia to Grotesque Dystopia -- 4. Interlude: The Island Syndrome from Atlantis to Lanzarote and Penglai -- 5. Enlightenment Utopias -- 6. Orientalism: European Writers Sear...
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Frontmatter -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Utopia of Thomas More -- 3. From Rational Eutopia to Grotesque Dystopia -- 4. Interlude: The Island Syndrome from Atlantis to Lanzarote and Penglai -- 5. Enlightenment Utopias -- 6. Orientalism: European Writers Searching for Utopia in China -- 7. Chinese Philosophers and Writers Constructing Their Own Utopias -- 8. Small-Scale Socialist Experiments, or "The New Jerusalem in Duodecimo" -- 9. Chernyshevsky's What Is to Be Done? and Dostoevsky's Dystopian Foresight -- 10. When Socialist Utopianism Meets Politics ... -- 11. Bellamy's Solidarity and Its Feminist Mirror Image in Herland -- 12. Chinese Occidentalism: The Nostalgia for a Utopian Past Gives Way to the Idea of Progress -- 13. H. G. Wells and the Modern Utopia -- 14. Dystopian Fiction in the Soviet Union, Proletkult, and Socialist-Realist Utopianism -- 15. Mao Zedong's Utopian Thought and the Post-Mao Imaginative Response -- 16. Utopias, Dystopias, and Their Hybrid Variants in Europe and America since World War I -- 17. Concluding Observations -- References -- Subject Index -- Index of Names Ausführliche Beschreibung