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Author Huang, Yiju

Title Tapestry of light : aesthetic afterlives of the Cultural Revolution / by Yiju Huang
Published Leiden : Brill, 2015

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Description 1 online resource (149 pages) : illustrations (colour
Series Ideas, History, and Modern China
Ideas, history, and modern China.
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
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 137-147) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Aesthetics -- Social aspects -- China
Arts and society -- China
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
HISTORY -- Asia -- China.
Aesthetics -- Social aspects
Arts and society
Arts, Chinese
Chinese literature
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Intellectual life
Motion pictures
SUBJECT China -- Intellectual life -- 1976- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85024148
China -- History -- Cultural Revolution, 1966-1976 -- Influence
Subject China
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9789004285590
9004285598