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Record Nr.

UNINA9910787906903321

Autore

Huang Yiju

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden, Netherlands : , : BRILL, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

90-04-28559-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (159 p.)

Collana

Ideas, History, and Modern China, , 1875-9394 ; ; Volume 10

Disciplina

951.05/6

Soggetti

Aesthetics - Social aspects - China

Arts and society - China

Arts, Chinese - History - 20th century

Arts, Chinese - History - 21st century

China Intellectual life 1976-

China History Cultural Revolution, 1966-1976 Influence

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preliminary Material -- 1 Introduction: Embroidering a Tapestry of Hope -- 2 Familial Secrets: Mao’s Famine in Hong Ying’s Daughter of the River -- 3 Aesthetic of Heterogeneity: Roots in Han Shaogong’s Theoretical and Literary Writings -- 4 Ghostly Vision: Zhang Xiaogang’s “Bloodline: The Big Family” -- 5 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 -- Bibliography -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

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.