| Description |
1 online resource (vi, 255 pages) |
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UPCC book collections on Project MUSE
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| Contents |
Introduction. The subordination of yanyi ; Canonizing revolution ; The new historical fiction -- Towards a delineation. Alternative histories ; Historiographic metafictions -- The tyranny of time. The birth of a temporal logic ; The Enlightenment legacy in retrospection ; Modernity and its discontents -- The proliferation of hetertopias. Mapping the geographies of the NHF ; The spatialization of time -- Writing decadence as allegory. Chinese decadence revisited ; Allegorizing historical decadence ; A rhetoric of sickness -- Constructing a "clean spirit". Writing in the Musilm way ; Aestheicizing pessimism and heterodoxy ; Journey to conversion -- Writing the peripheral into dictionary. The spatial form ; Fragments ; Rewriting history ; The power of words ; Dilemma -- History, fiction, and metafiction. Sexing Chinese history ; Living in totalitarian terror ; Intertextuality, memory and amnesia -- Conclusion : straddling traditionality and postmodernity |
| Summary |
"This is the first book-length study of the Chinese new historical fiction (NHF), whose rise marks the birth of a new historical discourse that interrogates the telos and the timetable of the current discourse of 'Chinese modernity' as well as the earlier 'revolutionary history'. In an attempt to foreground the significance and the generic renovations of this new discourse, the author contends that the NHF has emerged as an independent rival discourse which competes with the official historiography for the right to writing the Chinese history." "Covering a wide range of contemporary Chinese writers including Zhang Chengzhi, Han Shaogong, Wang Xiaobo, Mo Yan, Su Tong, Wang Anyi, Chen Zhongshi, Ge Fei, Li Rui, and Yu Hua, this volume is for all those who are interested in late twentieth-century Chinese literature, intellectual and cultural history, comparative literature and cultural studies."--Jacket |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references ([213]-249) and index |
| Notes |
English with some Chinese |
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Print version record |
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| In |
HKU Press digital editions |
| Subject |
Historical fiction, Chinese -- 20th century -- History and criticism
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Asian -- General.
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Literacy.
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Historical fiction, Chinese
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Historischer Roman
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Historischer Roman -- Chinesisch -- Geschichte -- 1986-1999.
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Literatur -- Chinesisch -- Motiv (Literatur) -- Geschichte (Begriff) -- Geschichte -- 1986-1999.
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Geschichte (Begriff) -- Motiv (Literatur) -- Chinesisch -- Geschichte -- 1986-1999.
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Geschichtsliteratur.
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Chinesisch.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2006473433 |
| ISBN |
9789882200456 |
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9882200451 |
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1282705512 |
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9781282705517 |
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9786612705519 |
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6612705515 |
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