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No Simple Love: The Literary Fortunes of the Brontë Sisters in Post-Mao, Market-Driven China

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The rise of the Brontë sisters’ literary fortune in China began with the public screening of the 1970 TV movie Jane Eyre (dir. Delbert Mann, perf. Susannah York and George C. Scott). The dubbing of the 110-minute film in Chinese by the storied Shanghai Film Dubbing Studio had taken place in 1975, in clandestine, top-secret fashion, when the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution (1966–76) had yet to run its full course of cultural as well as socioeconomic destruction.1

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Qi, S. (2014). No Simple Love: The Literary Fortunes of the Brontë Sisters in Post-Mao, Market-Driven China. In: Qi, S., Padgett, J. (eds) The Brontë Sisters in Other Wor(l)ds. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137405159_2

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