英文摘要 |
There are three main perspectives to expound the history of The Cooperative Movement in Mao’s China: socialist paradigm, enlightenment and modernization. While as the first novel that illustrates this movement, Zhao Shuli’s Sanliwan Village published in 1955 employs an alternative way. Based on the process, context and appeal of Zhao’s writing, this paper analyzes the unique literary representation in this novel and the historic connotation of the Utopia narrative of rural China. After examining terms such as ‘literature’, ‘individual/subject’, ‘society’, ‘village’, ‘China’ and ‘modernity’, this paper intends to re-read Sanliwan Village from the perspectives of epistemology and methodology, proposing the possibility of the construction of historic/ literary imagination which combines both socialism and modernization on the basis of continuity of tradition. |