Prof. Dr. Lena Hennigsen (Freiburg University), “Reading as creative and social practice: Unofficial popular entertainment literature during the Cultural Revolution”
Kulturwissenschaftliches Zentrum KWZ 1.731 Heinrich-Düker-Weg 14, Göttingen, Niedersachsen, DeutschlandMost literary histories of Twentieth Century China describe the output of the Cultural Revolution (CR) in a few sentences or paragraphs. Legal and officially endorsed literary texts of the decade seem flat, dull and boring to today’s readers. The CR thus appears as a period of literary shortage that would be ended with post-CR literature: […]