15. Mao Zedong’s Utopian Thought and the Post-Mao Imaginative Response

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Preface 5
3. Acknowledgements 9
4. Contents 11
5. 1. Introduction 15
6. 2. The Utopia of Thomas More 31
7. 3. From Rational Eutopia to Grotesque Dystopia 49
8. 4. Interlude: The Island Syndrome from Atlantis to Lanzarote and Penglai 83
9. 5. Enlightenment Utopias 95
10. 6. Orientalism: European Writers Searching for Utopia in China 135
11. 7. Chinese Philosophers and Writers Constructing Their Own Utopias 165
12. 8. Small-Scale Socialist Experiments, or “The New Jerusalem in Duodecimo” 195
13. 9. Chernyshevsky’s What Is to Be Done? and Dostoevsky’s Dystopian Foresight 211
14. 10. When Socialist Utopianism Meets Politics … 233
15. 11. Bellamy’s Solidarity and Its Feminist Mirror Image in Herland 255
16. 12. Chinese Occidentalism: The Nostalgia for a Utopian Past Gives Way to the Idea of Progress 271
17. 13. H. G. Wells and the Modern Utopia 289
18. 14. Dystopian Fiction in the Soviet Union, Proletkult, and Socialist-Realist Utopianism 301
19. 15. Mao Zedong’s Utopian Thought and the Post-Mao Imaginative Response 321
20. 16. Utopias, Dystopias, and Their Hybrid Variants in Europe and America since World War I 345
21. 17. Concluding Observations 399
22. References 411
23. Subject Index 431
24. Index of Names 441