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Genealogy of Revolutionary Ideas ACCL 2015 panel–cfp
From: rujie wang <rwang at wooster.edu>
Genealogy of Revolutionary Ideas in Literature
Panel Proposal for ACCL 2015
Call for Papers
One of the things Jasmine Revolution reveals is how fast ideas travel to mobilize people and effect political change. The theatricals aside, it is not completely unlike the Chinese revolutions in modern times that, though homegrown and seemingly isolated from global events, are ripples and splashes of ideas connected ideologically or geographically to non-Chinese worlds. This is not to discount the integrity of Chinese history but to reopen local history and find a genealogy of global revolutionary ideas traveling into and flowing out of such events as the Republic Revolution in 1911, the land reforms in the 40s and 1950s, the communist revolution and triumph in 1949, the Cultural Revolution in the 1960s, all the way to the current capitalist revolution that have profoundly changed Chinese ways of life. These revolutions, whether bloody and peaceful, whether unsuccessful or triumphant, show how rapidly ideas influence history and how rapidly China and the world are becoming inter-connected through revolutionary ideas.
Many of these influential ideas travel through the pipeline of art and literature into and from China. We hope to identify literary texts and their art/film adaptations proselytizing the inevitable clash of social classes, the individual rights and property rights, the injustice of social privileges, and the need for the land-poor and downtrodden to take over the means of production from the powerful. By connecting dots we hope to find routes on which revolutionary themes travel and become cross-fertilized, delayed, rerouted (where is Chinese Magna Carta or Adam Smith?), resisted, re-appropriated or misappropriated. Most importantly, the genealogy, when visible, allows us not only to discuss the intellectual properties of such political ideologies as Marxism, socialism or liberalism, but also explore their existential meanings as they travel in time and space.
We invite people to pay attention to these and other texts widely circulated in China:
• The Gadfly by Ethel Lilian Voynich 《牛氓》
• Как закалялась сталь 《钢铁是怎样炼成的》
• Чапаев (Vasily Chapayev) 《夏伯阳》
• The Conquest of Bread, by Peter Kropotkin;《面包与自由》
• The Jungle, by Upton Sinclair 《屠场》
• Uncle Tom’s Cabin, by Harriet Beecher Stowe 《汤姆大叔的小屋》
• The Fate of A Man, 《一个人的遭遇》And Quietly Flows the Don, 《静静的顿河》by Mikhail Sholokhov
• Fanshen, by William Hinton《翻身》
• Man’s Fate, by Andrew Malraux
• Fathers and Sons, by 《父与子》
• Les Miserables, by Victor Hugo 《悲惨世界》
• City Lights and Modern Times dir. Charles Chaplin 《城市之光》，《摩登时代》
by denton.2 at osu.edu on October 4, 2014
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