Illuminations from the Past: Trauma, Memory, and History in Modern China

By Ban Wang

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804750998
• ISBN13: 9780804750998
• Release Date: October 2004
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.4" x 8.9"