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Tapestry of Light - Aesthetic Afterlives of the Cultural Revolution

English · Hardback

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Tapestry of Light offers an account of the psychic, intellectual, and cultural aftermath of the Chinese Cultural Revolution. Drawing on a wide range of works including essay, fiction, memoir, painting and film, the book explores links between history, trauma and haunting. Challenging the leftist currents in Cultural Revolution scholarship, the tone pervading the book is a rhythm of melancholia, indeterminacy but also hope. Huang demonstrates that aesthetic afterlives resist both the conservative nostalgia for China's revolutionary past as well as China's elated, false confidence in the market-driven future.

Huang engages with prominent Chinese intellectuals, writers, artists and filmmakers, including Ba Jin, Han Shaogong, Hong Ying, Zhang Xiaogang, Jiang Wen and Ann Hui.

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Yiju Huang, Ph.D. (2011), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, is assistant professor of Chinese Studies at Bowling Green State University. Her recent publications include an article on French philosopher Alain Badiou's writing on the Chinese Cultural Revolution.


Product details

Authors Yiju Huang
Publisher Brill
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 14.11.2014
 
EAN 9789004285538
ISBN 978-90-04-28553-8
No. of pages 160
Dimensions 160 mm x 239 mm x 15 mm
Weight 386 g
Series Ideas, History, and Modern Chi
Subject Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous

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