英文摘要 |
The most important spatial practice from 1949 to 1966 was the transformation of the land system, which was reflected in the rural themes found in fictional works. During this period, land was always associated with“increases in production.”On the one hand, such“production”referred to“production from space,”i.e., driving up grain yields per mu of land by applying new tools, better seeds or upgraded cultivation methods.;On the other hand, it meant“the production of space,”i.e., digging canals, diverting rivers and initiating other water engineering projects to expand arable spaces. By using these spatial perspectives, I try to uncover structural problems within the Agricultural Cooperative Movement. While the Movement’s advantage lay in large-scale space projects such as land reclamation, channelization, water conservancy, etc., it became stretched thin in small sized“intensive cultivations,”where most of the conflicts in the storylines were set. However, the complexity of the discourse surrounding“increases in production”lay in the fact that it may have originated from both a relationship of capitalist production and its socialist counterpart. This article analyzes how they are entangled in literary texts. The confrontation in these texts is also a mirror image of the broader ideological battlefield outside of texts. In this article, I consider this dialogue in depth and analyze fictional works from the perspective of political-economic and spatial theories. This article clarifies the intertextual threads and places them in a broader“social text”in an effort to explore their richness. |