From May Fourth to June Fourth : : Fiction and Film in Twentieth-Century China /

From May Fourth to June Fourth : : Fiction and Film in Twentieth-Century China / / ed. by Ellen Widmer, David Der-wei Wang.

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What do the Chinese literature and film inspired by the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976) have in common with the Chinese literature and film of the May Fourth movement (1918-1930)? This new book demonstrates that these two periods of the highest literary and cinematic creativity in twentieth-century...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook Package Archive 1893-1999
MitwirkendeR:
Anderson, Marston,
Chow, Rey,
Decker, Margaret H.,
Duke, Michael S.,
Feuerwerker, Yi-Tsi Mei,
Fruehauf, Heinrich,
Huters, Theodore,
Kinkley, Jeffrey C.,
Lau, Joseph S. M.,
Liu, Lydia H.,
Pickowicz, Paul G.,
Wang, David Der-Wei,
HerausgeberIn:
Wang, David Der-wei,
Widmer, Ellen,
Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2021]
©1993
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
Series:Harvard Contemporary China Series ; 9
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Physical Description:1 online resource (458 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • I Country and City
  • 1 Visitation of the Past in Han Shaogong's Post-1985 Fiction
  • 2 Past, Present, and Future in Mo Yan's Fiction of the 1980s
  • 3 Shen Congwen's Legacy in Chinese Literature of the 1980s
  • 4 Imaginary Nostalgia: Shen Congwen, Song Zelai, Mo Yan, and Li Yongping
  • 5 Urban Exoticism in Modern and Contemporary Chinese Literature
  • II Subjectivity and Gender
  • 6 Text, Intertext, and the Representation of the Writing Self in Lu Xun, Yu Dafu, and Wang Meng
  • 7 Invention and Intervention: The Making of a Female Tradition in Modern Chinese Literature
  • 8 living in Sin: From May Fourth via the Antirightist Movement to the Present
  • III Narrative Voice and Cinematic Vision
  • 9 Lu Xun's Facetious Muse: The Creative Imperative in Modern Chinese Fiction
  • 10 lives in Profile: On the Authorial Voice in Modern and Contemporary Chinese literature
  • 11 Melodramatic Representation and the "May Fourth" Tradition of Chinese Cinema
  • 12 Male Narcissism and National Culture: Subjectivity in Chen Kaige's King of the Children
  • Afterword: Reflections on Change and Continuity in Modern Chinese Fiction
  • Notes
  • Contributors

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