LEADER 03773nam 22007214a 450 001 9910450068503321 005 20210618023319.0 010 $a1-282-76294-X 010 $a9786612762949 010 $a0-520-93724-4 010 $a1-59734-944-5 024 7 $a10.1525/9780520937246 035 $a(CKB)1000000000030684 035 $a(EBL)227339 035 $a(OCoLC)475933888 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000205286 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11184330 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000205286 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10191837 035 $a(PQKB)10665234 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000055970 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC227339 035 $a(OCoLC)57538038 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse30544 035 $a(DE-B1597)520989 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780520937246 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL227339 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10074088 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL276294 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000030684 100 $a20031202d2004 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn#---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe monster that is history$b[electronic resource] $ehistory, violence, and fictional writing in twentieth-century China /$fDavid Der-wei Wang 210 $aBerkeley $cUniversity of California Press$d2004 215 $a1 online resource (414 p.) 225 0 $aPhilip E. Lilienthal Book in Asian Studies 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a0-520-23873-7 311 0 $a0-520-23140-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 343-370) and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tAcknowledgments --$tIntroduction --$t1. Invitation to a Beheading --$t2. Crime or Punishment? --$t3. An Undesired Revolution --$t4. Three Hungry Women --$t5. Of Scars and National Memory --$t6. The Monster That Is History --$t7. The End of the Line --$t8. Second Haunting --$tNotes --$tBibliography --$tGlossary --$tIndex 330 $aIn ancient China a monster called Taowu was known for both its vicious nature and its power to see the past and the future. Over the centuries Taowu underwent many incarnations until it became identifiable with history itself. Since the seventeenth century, fictive accounts of history have accommodated themselves to the monstrous nature of Taowu. Moving effortlessly across the entire twentieth-century literary landscape, David Der-wei Wang delineates the many meanings of Chinese violence and its literary manifestations. Taking into account the campaigns of violence and brutality that have rocked generations of Chinese-often in the name of enlightenment, rationality, and utopian plenitude-this book places its arguments along two related axes: history and representation, modernity and monstrosity. Wang considers modern Chinese history as a complex of geopolitical, ethnic, gendered, and personal articulations of bygone and ongoing events. His discussion ranges from the politics of decapitation to the poetics of suicide, and from the typology of hunger and starvation to the technology of crime and punishment. 410 0$aPhilip E. Lilienthal Book in Asian Studies 606 $aChinese fiction$y20th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aChinese fiction$zTaiwan$xHistory and criticism 606 $aViolence in literature 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aChinese fiction$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aChinese fiction$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aViolence in literature. 676 $a895.1/35093552 700 $aWang$b Dewei$0690156 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910450068503321 996 $aThe monster that is history$92471149 997 $aUNINA