Remapping the past : fictions of history in Deng's China, 1979 -1997 / / by Howard Y.F. Choy.
The most prominent literary phenomenon in the 1980's and 1990's in China, historical fiction, has never been systematically surveyed in Anglophone scholarship. This is the first investigation into how, by rewriting the past, writers of Deng Xiaoping’s reform era undermined the grand narrat...
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| Superior document: | Leiden series in comparative historiography, v. 3 |
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| Year of Publication: | 2008 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Leiden series in comparative historiography ;
v. 3. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (287 p.) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary Materials / H.Y.F. Choy
- Introduction Narrative And Space: A Cartography Of History / H.Y.F. Choy
- Chapter One. Regional Romances And Family Fables: From Root Search To New Historicism / H.Y.F. Choy
- Chapter Two. The Outlying And The Peripheral: Myths Of Migrants And Minorities / H.Y.F. Choy
- Chapter Three. From The Country To The City: Nostalgia For The Hometown / H.Y.F. Choy
- Chapter Four. The Bodily Text And The Textual Body: The Violence Of History / H.Y.F. Choy
- Conclusion Back(Ward) To The Future: Toward A Retro-Fiction / H.Y.F. Choy
- Appendix What. Is Held And In Whose Hand? An Etymological Reexamination Of Shi / H.Y.F. Choy
- Bibliography / H.Y.F. Choy
- Index / H.Y.F. Choy.