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Chinese modern : the heroic and the quotidian /

Chinese Modern examines crucial episodes in the creation of Chinese modernity during the turbulent twentieth century. Analyzing a rich array of literary, visual, theatrical, and cinematic texts, Xiaobing Tang portrays the cultural transformation of China from the early 1900s through the founding of...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Tang, Xiaobing, 1964- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 2000.
Series:Post-contemporary interventions.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; PART I; 1 Trauma and Passion in The Sea of Regret: The Ambiguous Beginnings of Modern Chinese Literature; 2 Lu Xun's ''Diary of a Madman'' and a Chinese Modernism Excursion I: Beyond Homesickness: An Intimate Reading of Lu Xun's ''My Native Land''; 3 Shanghai, Spring 1930: Engendering the Revolutionary Body; 4 The Last Tubercular in Modern Chinese Literature: On Ba Jin's Cold Nights; PART II; 5 The Lyrical Age and Its Discontents: On the Staging of Socialist New China in The Young Generation.
  • 6 Residual Modernism: Narratives of the Self in the 1980s7 The Mirror of History and History as Spectacle: Reflectionson Xiao Ye and Su Tong; 8 In Search of the Real City: Cinematic Representations of Beijingand the Politics of Vision; 9 New Urban Culture and the Anxiety of Everyday Life in Late-Twentieth-Century China; Excursion II: Decorating Culture: Notes on Interior Design, Interiority, and Interiorization; 10 Melancholy Against the Grain: Approaching Postmodernity in Wang Anyi's Tales of Sorrow; Afterword; Glossary; Selected Bibliography; Index.