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Tapestry of light : aesthetic afterlives of the Cultural Revolution / by Yiju Huang.
Van Pelt Library DS779.23 .H83 2015
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Huang, Yiju, author.
- Series:
- Ideas, history, and modern China ; v. 10.
- Ideas, history and modern China ; v. 10
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Motion pictures.
- History.
- Chinese literature.
- Arts, Chinese.
- China--Intellectual life--1976-.
- China.
- Intellectual life.
- China--History--Cultural Revolution, 1966-1976--Influence.
- Aesthetics--Social aspects--China.
- Aesthetics.
- Aesthetics--Social aspects.
- Arts and society--China.
- Arts and society.
- Arts, Chinese--History--20th century.
- Arts, Chinese--History--21st century.
- Chinese literature--20th century--History and criticism.
- Chinese literature--21st century--History and criticism.
- Motion pictures--China--History--20th century.
- Motion pictures--China--History--21st century.
- Physical Description:
- 149 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2014]
- Summary:
- "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 currents in Cultural Revolution scholarship, the tone pervading the book is a rhythm of melancholia, indeterminacy but also hope. Huang demonstrates that aesthetic afterlives resist both the conservative nostalgia for China's revolutionary past as well as China's elated, false confidence in the market-driven future. Huang engages with prominent Chinese intellectuals, writers, artists and filmmakers, including Ba Jin, Han Shaogong, Hong Ying, Zhang Xiaogang, Jiang Wen and Ann Hui"--Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Introduction: Embroidering a tapestry of hope
- Familial secrets: Mao's famine in Hong Ying's Daughter of the river
- Aesthetic of heterogeneity: roots in Han Shaogong's theoretical and literary writings
- Ghostly vision: Zhang Xiaogang's "Bloodline: the big family"
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9789004285538
- 9004285539
- OCLC:
- 904183808
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