Chinese Modern: The Heroic and the Quotidian

Xiaobing Tang

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Chinese Modern

The Heroic and the Quotidian

Xiaobing Tang
Edited by: Stanley Fish and Fredric Jameson

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 2000

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Post-Contemporary Interventions

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An analysis of the Chinese experience of modernity through the literary works, films and other cultural artifacts that represent it.

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Xiaobing Tang is Associate Professor in Modern Chinese Literature at the University of Chicago.

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“Containing a series of penetrating analyses of landmark cultural works from the entire course of the twentieth century, Chinese Modern represents the most comprehensive account of modern Chinese literature that has ever been published in English. Tang also illuminates—like no one has before—the various ways in which the looming imperative of modernity has left its image on the imagination of modern China.”—Theodore Huters, University of California at Los Angeles

“Read Chinese Modern for a journey through China's ‘long twentieth century.’ Xiaobing Tang as guide shows how imaginative sympathy for one's subject nourishes critical acuity.”—Norma Field, University of Chicago

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Social Sciences Anthropology Social Anthropology

Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
List of Illustrations Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	1
PART I
1 Trauma and Passion in The Sea of Regret: The Ambiguous Beginnings of Modern Chinese Literature Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	11
2 Lu Xun’s ‘‘Diary of a Madman’’ and a Chinese Modernism Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	49
Excursion I: Beyond Homesickness: An Intimate Reading of Lu Xun’s ‘‘My Native Land’’ Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	74
3 Shanghai, Spring 1930: Engendering the Revolutionary Body Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	97
4 The Last Tubercular in Modern Chinese Literature: On Ba Jin’s Cold Nights Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	131
PART II
5 The Lyrical Age and Its Discontents: On the Staging of Socialist New China in The Young Generation Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	163
6 Residual Modernism: Narratives of the Self in the 1980s Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	196
7 The Mirror of History and History as Spectacle: Reflections on Xiao Ye and Su Tong Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	225
8 In Search of the Real City: Cinematic Representations of Beijing and the Politics of Vision Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	245
9 New Urban Culture and the Anxiety of Everyday Life in Late-Twentieth-Century China Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	273
Excursion II: Decorating Culture: Notes on Interior Design, Interiority, and Interiorization Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	295
10 Melancholy Against the Grain: Approaching Postmodernity in Wang Anyi’s Tales of Sorrow Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	316
Afterword Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	341
Glossary Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	349
Selected Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	357
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	369

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April 3, 2000

eBook ISBN:

9780822380887

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402

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17 figures

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822380887

eBook ISBN: 9780822380887

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