The Uses of Literature 
Subtitle: Life in the Socialist Chinese Literary System
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: February 14, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 396
ISBN-13: 9780691001982
Subjects: Literary studies: from c 1900 -; Literary theory; Socialism & left-of-centre democratic ideologies; Literary Collections; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Chinese; Sociology; China; Asian - General; Asian and Asian American Studies; Literary Criticism / Asian / Chinese; Asian; Asian - Chinese; 20th century; Chinese literature; History and criticism; Literature and society; Socialism and literature
First sentence: FOR UNDERSTANDABLE historical reasons, China has never easily viewed itself as one nation among others.