02515cam a2200313 i 4500 548320801 TxAuBib 20220218120000.0 210902s2022||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2021040999 9781735913667 PAP 16.00 1735913669 PAP 16.00 TxAuBib rda Walsh, Megan, (Professor.) The subplot [BOOK] : what China is reading and why it matters / Megan Walsh. New York, NY : Columbia Global Reports, 2022. 135 pages ; 19 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references. Lost Causes: Out with the Old, In with the New -- The Kids Are Alright: Coming of Age and the Urban Dream -- Fight and Flight: The Business of Online Escapism -- Pushing Boundaries: Alternative Comics, Boys' Love, and Ethnic Borderlands -- Code of Law: Crime, Corruption, and Surveillance -- Back to the Future: Longing for the Past, Gazing at the Stars. The Subplot takes us on a lively journey through a literary landscape like you’ve never seen before: a vast migrant-worker poetry movement, homoerotic romances by “rotten girls,” swaggering literary popstars, millionaire e-writers churning out the longest-ever novels, underground comics, the surreal works of Yu Hua, Yan Lianke, and Nobel laureate Mo Yan, and what is widely hailed as a golden age of Chinese science fiction. Chinese online fiction is now the largest publishing platform in the world. Fueled by her passionate engagement with Chinese literature and culture, Megan Walsh, a brilliant young critic, shows us why it’s important to finally pay attention to Chinese fiction—an exuberant drama that illustrates the complex relationship between art and politics, one that is increasingly shaping the West as well. Turns out, writers write neither what their government nor foreign readers want or expect, and they work on a different wavelength to keep alive ideas and events that are either overlooked or off limits. Provided by publisher. 20220218. Chinese fiction 21st century History and criticism. Books and reading China History 21st century. Literature and society China History 21st century. Literary criticism.