Perfect Worlds

Perfect Worlds offers an extensive historical analysis of utopian narratives in the Chinese and Euro-American traditions. This comparative study discusses, among other things, Mores criticism of Plato, the European orientalist search for utopia in China, Wellss Modern Utopia and his talk with Stalin, Chinese writers constructing their Confucianist utopia, traces of Daoism in Mao Zedongs utopianism and politics and finally the rise of dystopian writing a negative expression of the utopian impulse in Europe and America as well as in China.