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Chinese Communist Literature: The Persistence of Traditional Forms

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 February 2009

Cyril Birch
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What pessimistic observers have lamented as the collapse of Chinese civilisation is exactly the necessary undermining and erosion without which there could not have been a regeneration of an old civilisation.… The product of this rebirth looks suspiciously occidental. But scratch the surface and you will find that the stuff of which it is made is essentially the Chinese bedrock which much weathering and corrosion have only made stand out more clearly—the humanistic and rationalistic China resurrected by the touch of the scientific and democratic civilisation of the new world.

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Special Survey of Chinese Communist Literature
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The China Quarterly , Volume 13 , March 1963 , pp. 74 - 91
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Copyright © The China Quarterly 1963

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