![]() | Developmental Fairy Tales: Evolutionary Thinking and Modern Chinese Culture Subjects: Chinese literature -- History and criticism; Literature and society -- China; Fairy tales -- China -- History and criticism; Modernism (Literature) -- China; Lu Xun 1881–1936; Eroshenko Vasilii 1890–1952; In 1992 Deng Xiaoping famously declared, "Development is the only hard imperative." What ensued was the transformation of China from a socialist state to a capitalist market economy. The spirit of development has since become the prevailing creed of the People's Republic, helping to bring about unprecedented modern prosperity, but also creating new forms of poverty, staggering social upheaval, physical dislocation, and environmental destruction. Jones Andrew F. : Andrew F. Jones is Professor of Chinese at the University of California, Berkeley. |
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