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Record Nr.

UNINA9910460627603321

Autore

Qian Kun

Titolo

Imperial-time-order : literature, intellectual history, and China's road to empire / / by Kun Qian

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden, Netherlands ; ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : , : Brill Rodopi, , 2016

©2016

ISBN

90-04-30930-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (380 pages) : illustrations (some color), photographs

Collana

Ideas, History, and Modern China, , 1875-9394 ; ; Volume 13

Disciplina

951.03

Soggetti

Time - Political aspects - China - History

Imperialism - Social aspects - China - History

Literature and society - China - History

Time in literature

Imperialism in literature

National characteristics, Chinese - History

Electronic books.

China Intellectual life

China History Qing dynasty, 1644-1912

China History Republic, 1912-1949

China History 1949-

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preliminary Material -- Introduction -- 1 The Imperial-Time-Order: The Eternal Return of the Chinese Empire -- 2 Suspended Time: Grounding the Present in the Late Qing -- 3 Split Time: Enlightenment and its Discontent -- 4 Continuous Time: Heroes in the “Protracted War” -- 5 Transitional Time: Defining “the People” and the “Nation” in Mao’s China -- 6 Resurgent Time: The Return of “Empire” in Post-Socialist Representation -- 7 Love or Hate: The First Emperor on the Cinematic Screen -- 8 The Fascinating Empire: Emperors in Contemporary Novels -- 9 Tianxia Revisited: Empire and Family on the Television Screen -- 10 Becoming-Minority: Chinese Characteristics in Minority Historical Fiction -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.



Sommario/riassunto

Imperial-Time-Order is an engagingly written critical study on a persistent historical way of thinking in modern China. Defined as normalization of unification and moralization of time, Qian suggests, the imperial-time-order signifies a temporal structure of empire that has continued to shape the way modern China developed itself conceptually. Weaving together intellectual debates with literary and media representations of imperial history since the late Qing period, ranging from novels, stage plays, films, to television series, Qian traces the different temporalities of each period and takes “time” as the analytical node by which issues of empire, nation, family, morality, individual and collective subjectivity are constructed and contested.