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" Brushing history against the grain : "
Lin Qingxin
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BL
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651959
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dltt
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Lin, Qingxin,Ph.D
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Brushing history against the grain : : reading the Chinese new historical fiction (1986-1999) /\ Lin Qingxin
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Hong Kong :: Hong Kong University Press,, c2005
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vi, 255 p. ;; 24 cm
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9622096972
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: 9789622096974
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Includes bibliographical references ([213]-249) and index
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| Contents
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Introduction. The subordination of yanyi ; Canonizing revolution ; The new historical fiction -- Towards a delineation. Alternative histories ; Historiographic metafictions -- The tyranny of time. The birth of a temporal logic ; The Enlightenment legacy in retrospection ; Modernity and its discontents -- The proliferation of hetertopias. Mapping the geographies of the NHF ; The spatialization of time -- Writing decadence as allegory. Chinese decadence revisited ; Allegorizing historical decadence ; A rhetoric of sickness -- Constructing a "clean spirit". Writing in the Musilm way ; Aestheicizing pessimism and heterodoxy ; Journey to conversion -- Writing the peripheral into dictionary. The spatial form ; Fragments ; Rewriting history ; The power of words ; Dilemma -- History, fiction, and metafiction. Sexing Chinese history ; Living in totalitarian terror ; Intertextuality, memory and amnesia -- Conclusion : straddling traditionality and postmodernity
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Historical fiction, Chinese-- 20th century-- History and criticism
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| Dewey Classification
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895.18093
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PL2419.H57L56 2005
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