Ideology and Form in Yan Lianke’s Fiction: Mythorealism as Method by Haiyan Xie (review)

ends with a hope: “Ultimately, the form of cute manga is reinvented to circumvent the governmental censorship to achieve a small step of progress in feminist activism. That is another dimension of the politics of smallness, probably a more promising one.” (204) Two years after its publication, a group of young Chinese students quietly launched a small protest, which later gained a small name: the “blank paper revolution.”