From May Fourth to June Fourth Fiction and Film in Twentieth-Century China

Name: From May Fourth to June Fourth Fiction and Film in Twentieth-Century China
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ISBN: 9780674325029

ISBN-10: 0674325028

ISBN-13: 9780674325029

Edition: 1993

Authors: Ellen Widmer, David Der-wei Wang

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What do the Chinese literature and film inspired by the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976) have in common with the Chinese literature and film of the May Fourth movement (1918-1930)? This new book demonstrates that these two periods of the highest literary and cinematic creativity in twentieth-century China share several aims: to liberate these narrative arts from previous aesthetic orthodoxies, to draw on foreign sources for inspiration, and to free individuals from social conformity. Although these consistencies seem readily apparent, with a sharper focus the distinguished contributors to this volume reveal that in many ways discontinuity, not continuity, prevails. Their analysis…

Book details

List price: $44.50
Copyright year: 1993
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 1/1/1993
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 458
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.232
Language: English



Preface


Acknowledgments


Introduction David Der-wei Wang part:1 Country and City



Visitation of the Past in Han Shaogong's Post-1985 Fiction




Past, Present, and Future in Mo Yan's Fiction of the 1980s




Shen Congwen's Legacy in Chinese Literature of the 1980s




Imaginary Nostalgia




Urban Exoticism in Modern and Contemporary Chinese Literature Heinrich Fruehauf part: 2 Subjectivity and Gender



Text, Intertext, and the Representation of the Writing Self in




Invention and Intervention: The Making of a Female Tradition in Modern Chinese Literature




Living in Sin: From May Fourth via the Antirightist Movement to the Present Margaret H. Decker part: 3 Narrative Voice and Cinematic Vision



Lu Xun's Facetious Muse: The Creative Imperative in Modern Chinese Fiction




Lives in Profile: On the Authorial Voice in Modern and Contemporary Chinese Literature Theodore Huters



Melodramatic Representation and the "May Fourth" Tradition of Chinese Cinema




Male Narcissism and National Culture: Subjectivity in Chen Kaige's King of the Children



Afterword: Reflections on Change and Continuity in Modern Chinese Fiction



Notes


Contributors