02819nam 2200481 450 991079692780332120230807213908.090-04-29266-710.1163/9789004292666(CKB)3710000000370469(MiAaPQ)EBC2006497(OCoLC)906026023(nllekb)BRILL9789004292666(Au-PeEL)EBL2006497(CaPaEBR)ebr11039199(CaONFJC)MIL760539(EXLCZ)99371000000037046920150413h20152015 uy 0engurcnu||||||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierThe lost geopoetic horizon of Li Jieren the crisis of writing Chengdu in revolutionary China /Kenny Kwok-kwan NgLeiden, Netherlands ;Boston, [Massachusetts] :Brill,2015.©20151 online resource (319 pages) color illustrations, photographsSinica Leidensia,0169-9563 ;Volume 120Revision of the author's dissertation (doctoral)--Harvard University, 2004.90-04-29264-0 Includes bibliographical references and index.Preliminary Material -- 1 Introduction: The Man, The Place, The Novel -- 2 From Tianhui to Chengdu: Geopoetics and Historical Imagination -- 3 No Place for Good Memories: Chengdu 1911 -- 4 Tempest in a Teacup: Local Memorial Dynamics -- 5 Love in the Time of Revolution -- 6 The Road to Perdition -- Conclusion: No Sense of an Ending -- Appendix: Translations by Li Jieren -- Works Cited -- Chinese Glossary -- Index.Engaged with the paradigms of cultural geography, local history, spatial politics, and everyday life, The Lost Geopoetic Horizon of Li Jieren unveils a Sichuan writer’s lifelong quest: an independent historical fiction writing project on Chengdu from the turn of the century through China’s 1911 Revolution. Kenny Kwok-kwan Ng's study illuminates the crisis of writing home in a globalized age by rescuing Li Jieren’s repeatedly revised but never finished river-novel series written from Republican to Communist China, struggling to liberate local memory from the national cum revolutionary currents. The book undercuts official historiography and rewrites Chinese literary history from the ground up by highlighting Li’s resilient geopoetics of writing that decenters the nation by adopting the place-based view of a distant province.Sinica Leidensia ;Volume 120.895.13/52Ng Kenny Kwok-kwan1481444MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910796927803321The lost geopoetic horizon of Li Jieren3698396UNINA