National Past-Times: Narrative, Representation, and Power in Modern China

by Ann Anagnost

Book Overview

In National Past-Times, Ann Anagnost explores the fashioning and refashioning of modern Chinese subjectivity as it relates to the literal and figurative body of the nation. In essays revealing the particular temporality of the modern Chinese nation-state, Anagnost examines the disparate eras of its recent past and its propensity for continually looking backward in order to face the future.
Using interviews and participant observation as...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822319691
• ISBN13: 9780822319696
• Release Date: October 1997
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.93 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.2"