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Charles Laughlin, Chinese Reportage, reviewed by Susan Daruvala |
 | | Rather, it is argued that Chinese reportage creates a narrator who perceives historical events and persons as symbolic of abstract processes, and who does this perceiving “not as an individual or generalized human being but as one who primarily and collectively identifies with the Chinese nation” (39). |
| | The chapter on post-1949 reportage yields the valuable insight that these texts, which often feature young men and women working closely together in exciting situations, “re-contain or displace their youthful energies from the dangerous realm of private intimacy to the 'useful' realm of economic or political construction.” (251). |
| | Laughlin is explicit that a “radical moral iconoclasm, formed to a large extent by Leninism, is particularly prevalent in reportage and is closely related to the construction of the collective subjectivity that characterizes the development of the genre” (89). |
| mclc.osu.edu /rc/pubs/reviews/daruvala.htm (2618 words) |
