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Mapping modern Beijing : space, emotion, literary topography / Weijie Song.
LIBRA PL2275.P42 S66 2018
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Song, Weijie, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Chinese literature--20th century--History and criticism.
- Chinese literature.
- Beijing (China)--In literature.
- Beijing (China).
- Literature.
- China--Beijing.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 306 pages ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY, United States of America : Oxford University Press, [2018]
- Contents:
- Articulating Beijing in My Heart 2
- Emotion, Qing, and Chinese Urban Narrative 5
- Five Methods of Imagining Beijing 12
- 1 A Warped Hometown: Lao She and the Beijing Complex 36
- Utopianist (Dis)Enchantment, Materialized Desire, and Urban Darkness 38
- Atlas of Wartime Emotions 48
- Ide©ology and the Socialist Production of Space 60
- Teahouse, Warped Miniature, and Self-Mourning 70
- 2 Urban Snapshots and Manners: Zhang Henshui and the Beijing Dream 80
- Curiosity, Novelty, and the Ghost House 88
- The City and Its Family Romance 98
- An Unofficial History of Emotions 109
- 3 The Aesthetic versus the Political: Lin Huiyin and the City 119
- The Poetics and Politics of Urban Objects 122
- Passion and Pain in Place 137
- An Alternative Urban Blueprint 144
- Oblivion and Recollection 151
- 4 A Comparative Imperial Capital: Lin Yutang, Princess Der Ling, Victor Segalen, and the Views from Near and Afar 154
- An Ideal-Type City and the Performance of Pleasure 157
- The Twilight of Empire and the Disclosure of the Forbidden City 170
- Beneath the "Great Within," Horizontal Wells, and Spatial Exoticism 188
- 5 A Displaced City and Postmemory: Relocating Beijing in Sinophone Writing 199
- Food Memory, Emotional Topography, and Bittersweet Aftertaste 200
- Beijing Sojourn: Between Allergy and Eulogy 215
- In(Ex)clusion and Chivalric Geography 227.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0190200677
- 9780190200671
- OCLC:
- 1015917334
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