Illuminations from the Past

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Illuminations from the Past

Author	: Ban Wang
File Size	: 45,8 Mb
Publisher	: Stanford University Press
Language	: English
Release Date	: 22 June 2024
ISBN	: 0804750998
Pages	: 346 pages

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Illuminations from the Past by Ban Wang Book PDF Summary

This book offers a cultural history of modern China by looking at the tension between memory and history. Mainstream books on China tend to focus on the hard aspects of economics, government, politics, or international relations. This book takes a humanistic look at modern changes and examines how Chinese intellectuals and artists experienced trauma, social upheavals, and transformations. Drawing on a wide array of sources in political and aesthetic writings, literature, film, and public discourse, the author has portrayed the unique ways the Chinese imagine and portray their own historical destiny in the midst of trauma, catastrophe, and runaway globalization.

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