Illuminations From the Past - Trauma, Memory, and History in Modern China

Zusatztext "Written in a serious! sophisticated manner! this book successfully portrays the vicissitude of historical consciousness in modern China! focusing on literary writings." Informationen zum Autor Ban Wang is Associate Professor of Chinese and Comparative Literature at Rutgers University. He is the author of The Sublime Figure of History (Stanford, 1997) Klappentext "The new essays are notable for wide-ranging, thought-provoking reflections on modern Chinese history that are prompted by the author's own experiences, as well as for his courage in confronting a past that is a source of trauma as much as of hope."--The China Journal "Written in a serious, sophisticated manner, this book successfully portrays the vicissitude of historical consciousness in modern China, focusing on literary writings."--CHOICE Zusammenfassung This book offers a cultural history of modern China by looking at the tension between memory and history, examining how Chinese intellectuals and artists experienced trauma, social upheavals, and transformations.

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"The new essays are notable for wide-ranging, thought-provoking reflections on modern Chinese history that are prompted by the author's own experiences, as well as for his courage in confronting a past that is a source of trauma as much as of hope." The China Journal

Product details

• Authors: Wang Ban, Ban Wang, Wang Ban
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 08.10.2004
• EAN: 9780804749466
• ISBN: 978-0-8047-4946-6
• No. of pages: 328
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 19 mm
• Series: Cultural Memory in the Present; Cultural Memory in the Present
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Contemporary history (1945 to 1989); Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology