Can anyone recommend any films, books, artwork, anything on Chinese and/or Taiwanese utopianism? My professor said he’s going to give me an article he found recently (I don’t know where) on “fake Chinese utopianism.” When I get that I’ll put it up here. Give me a week. In the meantime, anything know something about this stuff?
Not that I know anything about Utopia, at least I live there…
Don’t know if it is any good:
Meisner，Maurice: Marxism, Maoism and Utopianism. University of Wisconsin Press, 1983
Thomas A. Metzger, “Modern Chinese Utopianism and the Western Concept of the Civil Society,” in San-ching Chen, ed., Kuo T’ing-i hsien-sheng chiu-chih tan-ch’en chi-nien lun-wen-chi, Papers Commemorating the Ninetieth Birthday of Prof. Kuo Ting-yee, 2 vols. (Taipei: Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica, 1995)
Rice-T,
Excellent. Thank you.
Thanks too rice_t. Here’s a Stanford Hoover write up of the Metzger book.
Book dealing with “fake” Chinese utopianism is called: “Xen,” published by Avar Press, written by D.J. Solomon It’s fiction -obviously- (but maybe not) about an ancient ancient ancient civilization (I guess in China, that’s what my professor said, though he hasn’t read it yet either; the publisher sent it to him). I’ll be reading it over the break and will post a synopsis of it, if anyone is interested.
Isn’t there a very small hippie-utopian movement down in Chia-yi? Every other weekend or so they throw these little festivals where they sell arts and crafts, play live music, dance around, where beads, tie-dyes, throw some shag carpets in the gur-like tent booths, burn incense, stare into lava lamps, expression freedom from work, that sort of thing. Anyone been to it. I forget the name of the woman who organizes it -something like “mushroom” or “midnight rainbow” or something along those lines.
Yes, please do.