A01=Ban Wang
Author_Ban Wang
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- ISBN 9780804749466
- Weight: 549g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 08 Oct 2004
- Publisher: Stanford University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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This book offers a cultural history of modern China by looking at the tension between memory and history. Mainstream books on China tend to focus on the hard aspects of economics, government, politics, or international relations. This book takes a humanistic look at modern changes and examines how Chinese intellectuals and artists experienced trauma, social upheavals, and transformations. Drawing on a wide array of sources in political and aesthetic writings, literature, film, and public discourse, the author has portrayed the unique ways the Chinese imagine and portray their own historical destiny in the midst of trauma, catastrophe, and runaway globalization.
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)
