Chinese Reportage - The Aesthetics of Historical Experience

"This is the first full-length English study of Chinese reportage, following its development from the turn of the century to the founding of the People's Republic. Charles A. Laughlin delineates the genesis and transformation of a genre that had a powerful impact on the making of Chinese literary and political modernity, and he inquires into the treacherous terms by means of which Chinese writers sought to understand reality and its representation. Theoretically provocative and historically engaged, this book will be of tremendous significance for anyone interested in modern Chinese literature, history, journalism, and politics."--David Der-wei Wang, Columbia University

List of contents

Acknowledgments

Frequently Cited Works
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Introduction

1. Travel: Writing a Way Out
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2. Public Demonstrations: The Mise-en-Scene of History

3. Labor Reportage and the Factoryscape
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4. War Correspondence I: Terror and the Wound
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5. War Correspondence II: Guerrilla Landscapes
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6. Socialist Reportage
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Conclusions

Notes

Bibliography

Index

About the author

Charles A. Laughlin

Summary

Explores the origins of Chinese reportage (journalism) in the 1930s, 40s and 50s, and develops an understanding of the aesthetics that governed the creation of this literature.

Product details

• Authors: Laughlin, Charles A Laughlin, Charles A. Laughlin
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 11.10.2002
• EAN: 9780822329596
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-2959-6
• No. of pages: 352
• Dimensions: 154 mm x 244 mm x 30 mm
• Weight: 680 g
• Series: Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society; Asia-Pacific; Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society; Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politic
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Journalism; China, 1950 bis 1959 n. Chr., 1940 bis 1949 n. Chr., Zwischen den Weltkriegen (1919 bis 1939 n. Chr.), Medien-, Unterhaltungs-, Informations- und Kommunikationsindustrie