Mark Leenhouts. Leaving the World to Enter the World: Han Shaogong and Chinese Root-Seeking Literature.(Book review) From: China Review International | Date: September 22, 2005| Author: Cai, Rong | COPYRIGHT 2005 University of Hawaii Press. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Mark Leenhouts. Leaving the World to Enter the World: Han Shaogong and Chinese Root-Seeking Literature. CNWS Publications, vol. 136. Leiden: CNWS Publications, 2005. x, 158 pp. 19 [euro], ISBN 90-5789-106-9.

When the contemporary Chinese cultural industry fell under the spell of a commercialized, entertainment-oriented popular culture, it would seem that rootseeking literature (or search-for-roots literature, as rendered elsewhere) with its idealism and sense of mission ...

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