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

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

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Superior document:Ideas, History, and Modern China, Volume 15
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Place / Publishing House:Leiden, Netherlands ;, Boston, [Massachusetts] : : Brill,, 2016.
©2016
Year of Publication:2016
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Series:Ideas, history, and modern China ; Volume 15.
Physical Description:1 online resource (220 pages).
Notes:Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • Introduction: Mnemonic Practices and the Products of Historical Trauma
  • 1 Ideologies, Textualization, and Consumption of Chinese Red Guard Memoirs
  • 2 Alternative Remembrances of the Cultural Revolution in Spider Eaters and Six Chapters of Life at a Cadre School
  • 3 The Politics and Pleasures of Visualizing the Sent-down Youth in the Global Film Market
  • 4 “Mirrors without Memories”: History, Remembering, and Documentary Truth
  • 5 In Search of Subjectivity: Memory and Inner Narrative in Gao Xingjian’s One Man’s Bible
  • 6 Sex, Murder, and Bodily Transgression: The Cultural Revolution in Translational Mass Literature
  • Coda: The Future of Remembering the Past
  • Bibliography
  • Index.