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Memory, Fluid Identity, and the Politics of Remembering
The Representations of the Chinese Cultural Revolution in English-speaking Countries
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Li Li
Language:
English
Published/Copyright:
2016
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About this book
The Chinese Cultural Revolution is the single most important internal social event in contemporary Chinese history. The plethora of history, literary, and artistic representations inspired by this event are critical to our understanding of the diversified, often contested, interpretations of contemporary China.
Li Li’s critical examination of autobiographic, filmic and fictional presentations in Memory, Fluid Identity, and the Politics of Remembering: The Representations of the Chinese Cultural Revolution in English-speaking Countries demonstrates that “memory works” not only reflect memories of those who lived through that period, but memories about their past, and, more importantly, about their identity remapping and artistic negotiation in a cross-cultural environment.
Li Li’s critical examination of autobiographic, filmic and fictional presentations in Memory, Fluid Identity, and the Politics of Remembering: The Representations of the Chinese Cultural Revolution in English-speaking Countries demonstrates that “memory works” not only reflect memories of those who lived through that period, but memories about their past, and, more importantly, about their identity remapping and artistic negotiation in a cross-cultural environment.
Author / Editor information
Li Li, Ph.D. (2007), University of California at Los Angeles, is Associate Professor of Chinese and Asian Studies at the University of Denver. She has published translations and articles on modern and contemporary Chinese literary and visual culture.
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June 21, 2016
eBook ISBN:
9789004323551
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Main content:
210
eBook ISBN:
9789004323551
Keywords for this book
sent-down youth films; memory and representation; cultural revolution; contemporary chinese literature; contemporary chinese films; diaspora literature; diaspora identity; 1966-1976; Gao Xingjian; Red Guard Memoirs; Red Guards; Qiu Xiaolong; Anchee Min; Yang Jiang; One Man's Bible
Audience(s) for this book
All interested in the Chinese Cultural Revolution, studies on memory and representation, and anyone concerned with contemporary Chinese literature, film, and diaspora identity.
