Abstract
China’s reception of “Western Marxism” is a critical part of the global history of Marxism. This paper examines three aspects of the reception of Western Marxism in literary and art criticism during the early years of Mao’s China (1949-65): the Western Marxist critique of surrealism, debates over Marx’s Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844, and Sartrean existentialism and Western Marxism. The impacts of Western Marxist literary thought upon Chinese literary studies during the early years of the PRC are discussed, along with the extensive influx of Western Marxism that began in the reform era of post-Mao China (1978- ) as a renewal of the early exchanges that were disrupted during the Cultural Revolution (1966-76).
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Zeng, Jun;
and Wang, Yichen.
"“Western Marxism” in Mao’s China."
CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture
22.5
(2020):
<https://doi.org/10.7771/1481-4374.3820>
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