Why do people in socialist China read and write literary works? Earlier studies in Western Sinology have approached Chinese texts from the socialist era as portraits of society, as keys to the tug-of-war of dissent, or, more recently, as pursuit of "pure
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS vii A NOTE ON DOCUMENTATION ix INTRODUCTION 3 CHAPTER ONE Historical Setting 13 Warming, 1976-1979 15 Cooling, 1980-1983 22 Perspectives 36 CHAPTER TWO The Mechanics of Literary Control 56 A Spectrum of Newpoints 56 What Was Contr