Marco Fumian

List of John Benjamins publications in which Marco Fumian is involved.

Articles

Fumian, Marco 2014 New Social Classes, Old Visions of Hierarchy: the Novel Chronicles of Du Lala’s Promotions as an Example of Middle Class Virtue in the Chinese “Socialist Market” Archív Orientální 82:2, pp. 317–335 | Article

This article focuses on the reading of the popular Chinese novel Chronicles of Du Lala’s Promotions, a bestseller published in 2007 and soon followed by numerous spin-offs, to observe how the novel constructs its vision of social hierarchy in the context of the emerging market economy and of the… read more

Fumian, Marco 2010 Olga Lomová, (ed.). Paths towards Modernity: Conference to Mark the Centenary of Jaroslav Průšek. Archív Orientální 78:4, pp. 455–457 | Review

Fumian, Marco 2010 The Social Construction of a Myth: An Interpretation of Guo Jingming’s Parable Archív Orientální 78:4, pp. 397–419 | Article

When 20-year-old Guo Jingming published his first novel Enchanted City, in 2003, a myth was immediately created. The symbols communicated both by the novel and by the author provoked a deep identification among the readers, who were, for the most part, middle and high school students of the urban… read more