Negative Exposures - Knowing What Not to Know in Contemporary China

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: 312
• Series: Sinotheory
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous