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Record Nr.

UNINA9910816361203321

Autore

Laughlin Charles A. <1964->

Titolo

Chinese reportage : the aesthetics of historical experience / / Charles A. Laughlin

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Durham, : Duke University Press, 2002

ISBN

1-282-92038-3

9786612920387

0-8223-8412-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xii, 334 pages)

Collana

Asia-Pacific

Disciplina

079/.51

079.510904

Soggetti

Reportage literature, Chinese - History and criticism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [307]-325) and index.

Nota di contenuto

1 Travel: Writing a Way Out -- 2 Public Demonstrations: The Mise-en-Scene of History -- 3 Labor Reportage and the Factoryscape -- 4 War Correspondence I: Terror and the Wound -- 5 War Correspondence II: Guerrilla Landscapes -- 6 Socialist Reportage.

Sommario/riassunto

Explores the origins of Chinese reportage (journalism) in the 1930s, 40s and 50s, and develops an understanding of the aesthetics that governed the creation of this literature.