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Negative Exposures - Knowing What Not to Know in Contemporary China

English · Hardback

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Margaret Hillenbrand explores how artistic appropriations of historical images effectively articulate the openly unsayable and counter the public secrecy that erases traumatic episodes from China's past.

List of contents










Series Editor's Preface  ix
Acknowledgments  xi
Preface  xiii
Introduction. Staking Out Secrecy  1
1. Don't Look Now  45
2. Keeping It in the Family  89
3. Cracking the Ice  131
4. Ducking the Firewall  168
Conclusion. Out of the Darkroom  209
Notes  225
References  245
Index  277

About the author










Margaret Hillenbrand is Associate Professor of Modern Chinese Literature and Culture at the University of Oxford. She is the author of Literature, Modernity, and the Practice of Resistance and the coeditor of Documenting China.

Summary

Margaret Hillenbrand explores how artistic appropriations of historical images effectively articulate the openly unsayable and counter the public secrecy that erases traumatic episodes from China's past.

Product details

Authors Margaret Hillenbrand
Publisher Duke University Press
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 31.03.2020
 
EAN 9781478006190
ISBN 978-1-4780-0619-0
No. of pages 277
Series Sinotheory
Subjects Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories
Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous

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