Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Figures vii
4. Foreword: Conceptualizing Chinese Memories ix
5. Introduction: Materiality, Imagination and the Memorable 1
6. Part I CURATING MEMORIES THROUGH ART AND FILM
7. 1 The Memory Palace of a Chinese Painter 25
8. 2 JIA ZHANGKE’S MEMORY PROJECT, 24 CITY Rewriting History, Rethinking Historiography 55
9. Part II FRAMING MEMORIES THROUGH LITERATURE AND THE BODY
10. 3 ‘Swimming against the Current’ The Mediation of Cultural Memory in the Writings by Christa Wolf and Ding Ling 79
11. 4 CHINESE BODY-EXPRESSION AND CULTURAL MEMORY IN MO YAN’S BIG BREASTS & WIDE HIPS 102
12. 5 Remembering Statelessness in Food Stories from Jewish Shanghai 121
13. PART III PROPAGATING MEMORIES THROUGH STORYTELLING
14. 6 From Personal Connections to Mutual Trust: Building Memories with the Children of the Chinese Staff of the Chinese Maritime Customs Service 145
15. 7 Jailhouse Blues, Storytelling and Becoming the Stuff of Legends in Southwest China 181
16. Conclusion: Layers, Traces, Fields and Storehouses of Memory 206
17. Index 221