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9780804750998

Illuminations From The Past

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  • ISBN13:

    9780804750998

  • ISBN10:

    0804750998

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2004-11-15
  • Publisher: Stanford Univ Pr

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Summary

This book offers a cultural history of modern China by looking at the tension between memory and history. Mainstream books on China tend to focus on the hard aspects of economics, government, politics, or international relations. This book takes a humanistic look at modern changes and examines how Chinese intellectuals and artists experienced trauma, social upheavals, and transformations. Drawing on a wide array of sources in political and aesthetic writings, literature, film, and public discourse, the author has portrayed the unique ways the Chinese imagine and portray their own historical destiny in the midst of trauma, catastrophe, and runaway globalization.

Author Biography

Ban Wang is Associate Professor of Chinese and Comparative Literature at Rutgers University. He is the author of The Sublime Figure of History (Stanford, 1997).

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments xi
Introduction: Memory and History in Globalization 1(16)
PART 1. TOWARD A CRITICAL HISTORICAL CONSCIOUSNESS
1. Tradition, Memory, and Hope: Lu Xun and Critical Historical Consciousness
17(41)
2. Tragic Vision, Traumatic Visuality, and the Montage of History
58(35)
PART 2. POSTREVOLUTIONARY TRAUMA AND THE RECONSTRUCTION OF HISTORY
3. Postrevolutionary History in a Traumatic Key
93(31)
4. Temporality, Memory, and Myth in Wang Anyi's Fiction
124(18)
5. Traumatic History Against Melodrama: Blue Kite
142(21)
6. From Historical Narrative to the World of Prose
163(18)
PART 3. GLOBALIZATION, NOSTALGIA, RESISTANCE
7. Reenchanting the Everyday in the Global City
181(31)
8. Love at Last Sight: Nostalgia, Memory, and Commodity in Contemporary Chinese Literature
212(23)
9. Remembering Realism: The Material Turn in Chinese Cinema and Street Scenes of Globalization
235(24)
Notes 259(18)
Chinese Names and Terms 277(6)
Bibliography 283(12)
Index 295

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