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Tapestry of light : aesthetic afterlives of the Cultural Revolution / by Yiju Huang.

Author/creator	Huang, Yiju
Format	Electronic and Book
Publication Info	Leiden : Brill, 2015.
Description	149 pages : illustrations (colour) ; 25 cm
Supplemental Content	Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete
Subject(s)	Aesthetics--Social aspects --China. Arts and society--China. Arts, Chinese--History --20th century. Arts, Chinese--History --21st century. Chinese literature--20th century --History and criticism. Chinese literature--21st century --History and criticism. Motion pictures--China --History --20th century. Motion pictures--China --History --21st century. China--Intellectual life --1976- China--History --Cultural Revolution, 1966-1976 --Influence.

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Contents	Introduction: Embroidering a tapestry of hope -- Familial secrets : Mao's famine in Hong Ying's Daughter of the river -- Aesthetic of heterogeneity : roots in Han Shaogong's theoretical and literary writings -- Ghostly vision : Zhang Xiaogang's "Bloodline : the big family" -- Protean youth : redemptive poetics in In the heat of the sun and The postmodern life of my aunt -- Coda: Ba Jin : toward an ethical relation to history.
Scope and content	"Tapestry of Light offers an account of the psychic, intellectual, and cultural aftermath of the Chinese Cultural Revolution. Drawing on a wide range of works including essay, fiction, memoir, painting and film, the book explores links between history, trauma and haunting. Challenging the leftist currents in Cultural Revolution scholarship, the tone pervading the book is a rhythm of melancholia, indeterminacy but also hope. Huang demonstrates that aesthetic afterlives resist both the conservative nostalgia for China's revolutionary past as well as China's elated, false confidence in the market-driven future. Huang engages with prominent Chinese intellectuals, writers, artists and filmmakers, including Ba Jin, Han Shaogong, Hong Ying, Zhang Xiaogang, Jiang Wen and Ann Hui"--Provided by publisher.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (pages 137-147) and index.
Access restriction	Available only to authorized users.
Technical details	Mode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/form	Electronic books.
LCCN	2014036721
ISBN	9789004285538 (hardback : acid-free paper)

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