Questioning the Chinese Model. Oppositional Political Novels in Early Twenty-First Century China

In the early twenty-first century, the Chinese literary world saw an emergence of fictional works – dubbed as «oppositional political novels» – that took political articulation as their major purpose and questioned the fundamental principles and intrinsic logic of the Chinese model. Based on close readings of five representative oppositional Chinese political novels, Questioning the Chinese Model examines the sociopolitical connotations and epistemological values of these novels in the broad context of modern Chinese intellectual history and contemporary Chinese politics and society.