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Witness Against History: Literature, Film, and Public Discourse in Twentieth-Century China Book

Witness Against History: Literature, Film, and Public Discourse in Twentieth-Century China
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  • Witness Against History: Literature, Film, and Public Discourse in Twentieth-Century China
  • Written by author Yomi Braester
  • Published by Stanford University Press, May 2003
  • This study offers fresh readings of milestones in twentieth-century Chinese fiction, film, and drama and argues that they have questioned the faith in historical progress and in the viability of a sphere of free debate.
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Preface
Note on Translations
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Introduction: Critical Discourse in Twentieth-Century China1
1Dreaming a Cure for History: The Resistance to Historical Consciousness Within the May Fourth Movement31
2Rewriting Tradition, Misreading History: Twentieth-Century (Sub)versions of Pan Jinlian's Story56
3Revolution and Revulsion: Ideology, Monstrosity, and Phantasmagoria in 1930s Chinese Cinema81
4The Purloined Lantern: Maoist Semiotics and Public Discourse in Early PRC Film and Drama106
5A Blinding Red Light: The Displacement of Rhetoric in the Cinema of the Early 1980s131
6Disjointed Time, Split Voices: Retrieving Historical Experience in Scar Literature146
7Retelling Taiwan: Identity and Dislocation in Post-Chiang Mystery158
8The Aesthetics and Anesthetics of Memory: PRC Avant-Garde Fiction177
9Memory at a Standstill: From Maohistory to Hooligan History192
Epilogue207
Notes211
Bibliography237
Index257


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