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Author Yiran, Zheng, 1978- author

Title Writing Beijing : urban spaces and cultural imaginations in contemporary Chinese literature and films / by Yiran Zheng
Published Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2016]

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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 149 pages)
Contents Figures; Introduction; P A R T I; Chapter 1. Work Unit Compound: An Emergence of a New Urban Space; Chapter 2. "Gongheguo xingui" (New Aristocrats of the PRC); Chapter 3. Red Nostalgia in the Literature of the Military Compound; P A R T I I; Chapter 4. Siheyuan: Signifier of Traditional and Masculine City; Chapter 5. Second-Generation Beijing Flavor Writers; Chapter 6. Traditional Beijing and Masculine Beijing in Second-Generation Beijing Flavor Literature; P A R T I I I; Chapter 7. Modern and Postmodern Architectures: Presentations of the Global Context; Chapter 8. Beijing Floaters
Chapter 9. Cosmopolitan Metropolis as an Urban Dream in Sixth-Generation FilmsConclusion; References; Index; About the Author
Summary This study investigates some literary configurations of Beijing through contemporary Chinese literature and films. These configurations as "revolutionary Beijing", "traditional and masculine Beijing", "global Beijing as a Urban Dream" are built upon three specific urban spaces: military compound, traditional dwellings, and some post-modern architectures. Representation of these spaces are revealed to be the projections of some writers and filmmakers' own cultural imaginations
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on June 07, 2016)
Subject Chinese literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
Chinese literature -- 21st century -- History and criticism
Motion pictures, Chinese -- History and criticism
Public spaces in literature.
Public spaces -- China -- Beijing
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Asian -- General.
Chinese literature.
Literature.
Motion pictures.
Motion pictures, Chinese.
Public spaces.
Public spaces in literature.
SUBJECT Beijing (China) -- In literature
China -- In motion pictures. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85024205
Subject China.
China -- Beijing.
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2016012613
ISBN 9781498531023
1498531024