Title Chinese modern : the heroic and the quotidian / Xiaobing Tang

Published Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 2000

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 380 pages, 2 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color) Series Post-contemporary interventions Post-contemporary interventions. Contents List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; PART I; 1 Trauma and Passion in The Sea of Regret: The Ambiguous Beginnings of Modern Chinese Literature; 2 Lu Xun's ''Diary of a Madman'' and a Chinese Modernism Excursion I: Beyond Homesickness: An Intimate Reading of Lu Xun's ''My Native Land''; 3 Shanghai, Spring 1930: Engendering the Revolutionary Body; 4 The Last Tubercular in Modern Chinese Literature: On Ba Jin's Cold Nights; PART II; 5 The Lyrical Age and Its Discontents: On the Staging of Socialist New China in The Young Generation 6 Residual Modernism: Narratives of the Self in the 1980s7 The Mirror of History and History as Spectacle: Reflectionson Xiao Ye and Su Tong; 8 In Search of the Real City: Cinematic Representations of Beijingand the Politics of Vision; 9 New Urban Culture and the Anxiety of Everyday Life in Late-Twentieth-Century China; Excursion II: Decorating Culture: Notes on Interior Design, Interiority, and Interiorization; 10 Melancholy Against the Grain: Approaching Postmodernity in Wang Anyi's Tales of Sorrow; Afterword; Glossary; Selected Bibliography; Index Summary Chinese Modern examines crucial episodes in the creation of Chinese modernity during the turbulent twentieth century. Analyzing a rich array of literary, visual, theatrical, and cinematic texts, Xiaobing Tang portrays the cultural transformation of China from the early 1900s through the founding of the People's Republic, the installation of the socialist realist aesthetic, the collapse of the idea of utopia in the aftermath of the Cultural Revolution, and the gradual cannibalization of the socialist past by consumer culture at the century's end. Throughout, he highlights the dynamic tension between everyday life and the heroic ideal. Tang uncovers crucial clues to modern Chinese literary and cultural practices through readings of Wu Jianren's 1906 novel The Sea of Regret and works by canonical writers Lu Xun, Ding Ling, and Ba Jin. For the mid-century, he broadens his investigation by considering theatrical, cinematic, and visual materials in addition to literary texts. His reading of the 1963 play The Young Generation reveals the anxiety and terror underlying the exhilarating new socialist life portrayed on the stage. This play, enormously influential when it first appeared, illustrates the utopian vision of China's lyrical age and its underlying discontents -- both of which are critical for understanding late-twentieth-century China. Tang closes with an examination of post-Cultural Revolution nostalgia for the passion of the lyrical age. Throughout Chinese Modern Tang suggests a historical and imaginative affinity between apparently separate literatures and cultures. He thus illuminates not only Chinese modernity but also the condition of modernity as a whole, particularly inlight of the postmodern recognition that the market and commodity culture are both angel and devil. This elegantly written volume will be invaluable to students of China, Asian studies, literary criticism, and cultural studies, Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 357-367) and index Notes English Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL Print version record digitized 2021. HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Subject Popular culture -- China Chinese literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism Postmodernism -- China SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural. Chinese literature Popular culture Postmodernism Chinesisch Literatur Moderne Massenkultur Popular culture -- China. Chinese literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism. Postmodernism -- China. Mouvements littéraires -- Chine. Culture populaire -- Chine. Postmodernisme -- Chine. Littérature chinoise -- 20e siècle -- Histoire et critique. China Chinesisch. Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book ISBN 0822380889 9780822380887 0822324474 9780822324478 1282903748 9781282903746 9786612903748 6612903740

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