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

Product details

• Authors: Charles A Laughlin, Charles A. Laughlin
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 11.10.2002
• EAN: 9780822329718
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-2971-8
• No. of pages: 352
• Dimensions: 148 mm x 250 mm x 23 mm
• Weight: 531 g
• Series: Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society; Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politic
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Society; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Individual industrial sectors, branches