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Author Choy, Howard Y. F. (Howard Yuen Fung)

Title Remapping the past : fictions of history in Deng's China, 1979-1997 / by Howard Y.F. Choy
Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2008

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Description 1 online resource (x, 277 pages) : illustrations
Series Leiden series in comparative historiography, 1574-4493 ; v. 3
Leiden series in comparative historiography ; v. 3.
Contents Introduction : narrative and space : a cartography of history -- Regional romances and family fables : from root search to new historicism -- The outlying and the peripheral : myths of migrants and minorities -- From the country to the city : nostalgia for the hometown -- The bodily text and the textual body : the violence of history -- Typography and topography : the textual body in the works of Su Tong and Ge Fei -- Conclusion : back(ward) to the future : toward a retro-fiction -- Appendix : what is held and in whose hand? : an etymological reexamination of shi
Summary Investigates how writers of Deng Xiaoping's reform era undermined the grand narrative of official history. This book features fictions of history by Chinese, Muslim and Tibetan authors. It is organized in terms of spatial schemes of fictional historiography. It covers the themes of memory, language, food, sex, and violence in historical writing
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-269) and index
Notes English
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Subject Chinese fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Asian -- General.
Chinese fiction
Literatur
Geschichte Motiv
Litteratur -- historia -- Kina -- 1900-talet.
Chinesisch.
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2008011344
ISBN 9789047442783
9047442784
1282398903
9781282398900
9786612398902
6612398906
Other Titles Fictions of history in Deng's China, 1979-1997