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Zusatztext "[Witness Against History] will greatly benefit scholars and students of modern Chinese literature and cinema concerned with issues of representation! communication! and dissemination in the history-specific public sphere." Informationen zum Autor Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and a member of the Cinema Studies Program at the University of Washington. Klappentext This study offers fresh, theoretically informed readings of milestones in Chinese fiction, film, and drama spanning the entire twentieth century. Drawing on rare archival material, it argues that they have challenged social reformers' call for changing the course of history. In doing so it makes a methodological point of interest to historians, literary scholars, and social scientists concerned with the relation between literature and testimony, literature and history, and literature and the public sphere. The book argues that literary texts are fundamentally different from historical texts and from programmatic essays. > Zusammenfassung This study offers fresh readings of milestones in twentieth-century Chinese fiction, film, and drama and argues that they have questioned the faith in historical progress and in the viability of a sphere of free debate.
