Tapestry of light : : aesthetic afterlives of the Cultural Revolution / / by Yiju Huang.

Tapestry of Light offers an account of the psychic, intellectual, and cultural aftermath of the Chinese Cultural Revolution. Drawing on a wide range of works including essay, fiction, memoir, painting and film, the book explores links between history, trauma and haunting. Challenging the leftist cur...

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Superior document:Ideas, History, and Modern China, Volume 10
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Place / Publishing House:Leiden, Netherlands : : BRILL,, 2014.
©2014
Year of Publication:2014
Language:English
Series:Ideas, history, and modern China ; Volume 10.
Physical Description:1 online resource (159 p.)
Notes:Description based upon print version of record.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • 1 Introduction: Embroidering a Tapestry of Hope
  • 2 Familial Secrets: Mao’s Famine in Hong Ying’s Daughter of the River
  • 3 Aesthetic of Heterogeneity: Roots in Han Shaogong’s Theoretical and Literary Writings
  • 4 Ghostly Vision: Zhang Xiaogang’s “Bloodline: The Big Family”
  • 5 Protean Youth: Redemptive Poetics in In the Heat of the Sun and The Postmodern Life of My Aunt
  • Coda: Ba Jin: Toward an Ethical Relation to History
  • Bibliography
  • Index.