The Reception of Mao's 'Talks at the Yan'an Forum on Literature and Art' in English-language Scholarship

Abstract

In his article Reception of Mao's 'Talks at the Yan'an Forum on Literature and in English-language Scholarship Qilin Fu examines the three waves of the reception of Mao Zedong's 1942 text. Fu elaborates on the understandings of Mao's ideas about literature and art and discusses the changes depending on historical and political contexts. Fu argues that the changes are explicit or implicit representations of cultural politics ranging from an anti-communist criticism based on Cold War ideology to the concerns of literary theory and the cultural critique of discourse in the context of globalization. Qilin Fu, Reception of Mao's 'Talks at the Yan'an Forum on Literature and Art' in English-language Scholarship Page 2 of 8 CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture 17.1 (2015): Thematic Issue The Study of Chinese Literature in the Anglophone World. Ed. Shunqing Cao