Memory, fluid identity, and the politics of remembering : the representations of the Chinese Cultural Revolution in English-speaking countries

Memory, fluid identity, and the politics of remembering : the representations of the Chinese Cultural Revolution in English-speaking countries /

"The Chinese Cultural Revolution is the single most important internal social event in contemporary Chinese history. The plethora of historical, literary, and artistic representations inspired by this event are critical to our understanding of the diversified, often contested, interpretations o...

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Main Author: Li, Li, 1957 July 21- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2016
Series:Ideas, history, and modern China ; v. 15.
Subjects:
Chinese > English-speaking countries > Ethnic identity.
Memory > Social aspects > English-speaking countries.
Memory > Political aspects > English-speaking countries.
Chinese in literature.
Chinese in motion pictures.
American literature > Chinese American authors > History and criticism.
Motion pictures > History > 20th century.
China > History > Cultural Revolution, 1966-1976 > Influence.
English-speaking countries > Relations > China.
China > Relations > English-speaking countries.
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Mnemonic practices and the products of historical trauma
  • Ideologies, textualization, and consumption of Chinese Red Guard memoirs
  • Alternative remembrances of the Cultural Revolution in Spider eaters and Six chapters of life at a cadre school
  • The politics and pleasures of visualizing the sent-down youth in the global film market
  • "Mirrors without memories" : history, remembering, and documentary truth
  • In search of subjectivity : memory and inner narrative in Gao Xingjian's One man's Bible
  • Sex, murder, and bodily transgression : the Cultural Revolution in translational mass literature
  • Coda: The future of remembering the past.

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