The Politics of Cultural Capital: China's Quest for a Nobel Prize in Literature

From: The China Journal | Date: July 1, 2007| Author: Geng, Song | Copyright information

The Politics of Cultural Capital: China's Quest for a Nobel Prize in Literature, by Julia Lovell. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2006. viii - 248 pp. US$60.00 (hardcover), US$26.00 (paperback).

This beautifully written book gives a pleasure in reading unusual for academic books. It is the first book-length study on Chinese intellectuals' "Nobel Complex", namely a preoccupation with the Nobel Literature Prize and an anxiety about China's international status. Supported by exhaus...

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