03773nam 22007214a 450 991045006850332120210618023319.01-282-76294-X97866127629490-520-93724-41-59734-944-510.1525/9780520937246(CKB)1000000000030684(EBL)227339(OCoLC)475933888(SSID)ssj0000205286(PQKBManifestationID)11184330(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000205286(PQKBWorkID)10191837(PQKB)10665234(StDuBDS)EDZ0000055970(MiAaPQ)EBC227339(OCoLC)57538038(MdBmJHUP)muse30544(DE-B1597)520989(DE-B1597)9780520937246(Au-PeEL)EBL227339(CaPaEBR)ebr10074088(CaONFJC)MIL276294(EXLCZ)99100000000003068420031202d2004 uy 0engurnn#---|u||utxtccrThe monster that is history[electronic resource] history, violence, and fictional writing in twentieth-century China /David Der-wei WangBerkeley University of California Press20041 online resource (414 p.)Philip E. Lilienthal Book in Asian StudiesDescription based upon print version of record.0-520-23873-7 0-520-23140-6 Includes bibliographical references (p. 343-370) and index.Front matter --Contents --Acknowledgments --Introduction --1. Invitation to a Beheading --2. Crime or Punishment? --3. An Undesired Revolution --4. Three Hungry Women --5. Of Scars and National Memory --6. The Monster That Is History --7. The End of the Line --8. Second Haunting --Notes --Bibliography --Glossary --IndexIn ancient China a monster called Taowu was known for both its vicious nature and its power to see the past and the future. Over the centuries Taowu underwent many incarnations until it became identifiable with history itself. Since the seventeenth century, fictive accounts of history have accommodated themselves to the monstrous nature of Taowu. Moving effortlessly across the entire twentieth-century literary landscape, David Der-wei Wang delineates the many meanings of Chinese violence and its literary manifestations. Taking into account the campaigns of violence and brutality that have rocked generations of Chinese-often in the name of enlightenment, rationality, and utopian plenitude-this book places its arguments along two related axes: history and representation, modernity and monstrosity. Wang considers modern Chinese history as a complex of geopolitical, ethnic, gendered, and personal articulations of bygone and ongoing events. His discussion ranges from the politics of decapitation to the poetics of suicide, and from the typology of hunger and starvation to the technology of crime and punishment.Philip E. Lilienthal Book in Asian StudiesChinese fiction20th centuryHistory and criticismChinese fictionTaiwanHistory and criticismViolence in literatureElectronic books.Chinese fictionHistory and criticism.Chinese fictionHistory and criticism.Violence in literature.895.1/35093552Wang Dewei690156MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910450068503321The monster that is history2471149UNINA