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Author Wang, Ban, 1957-

Title Illuminations from the past : trauma, memory, and history in modern China / Ban Wang
Published Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, [2004]
©2004

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Description xii, 311 pages ; 24 cm
Series Cultural memory in the present
Cultural memory in the present.
Contents Introduction : memory and history in globalization -- 1. Tradition, memory, and hope : Lu Xun and critical historical consciousness -- 2. Tragic vision, traumatic visuality, and the montage of history -- 3. Postrevolutionary history in a traumatic key -- 4. Temporality, memory, and myth in Wang Anyi's fiction -- 5. Traumatic history against melodrama : Blue kite -- 6. From historical narrative to the world of prose -- 7. Reenchanting the everyday in the global city -- 8. Love at last sight : nostalgia, memory, and commodity in contemporary Chinese literature -- 9. Remembering realism : the material turn in Chinese cinema and street scenes of globalization
Notes Chinese names and terms: p. [277]-281
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-294) and index
Subject Globalization.
Popular culture -- China.
Postmodernism -- China.
SUBJECT China -- Civilization -- 2002- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2004006870
China -- Civilization http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85023992 -- 1976-
China -- Civilization -- 1976-2002. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99010765
LC no. 2004008172
ISBN 0804749469 alkaline paper
0804750998 paperback alkaline paper