Illuminations from the past : trauma, memory, and history in modern China /
Wang, Ban,1957-
Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press,
2004.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [283]-294) and index.
Introduction : memory and history in globalization -- 1. Tradition, memory, and hope : Lu Xun and critical historical consciousness -- 2. Tragic vision, traumatic visuality, and the montage of history -- 3. Postrevolutionary history in a traumatic key -- 4. Temporality, memory, and myth in Wang Anyi's fiction -- 5. Traumatic history against melodrama : Blue kite -- 6. From historical narrative to the world of prose -- 7. Reenchanting the everyday in the global city -- 8. Love at last sight : nostalgia, memory, and commodity in contemporary Chinese literature -- 9. Remembering realism : the material turn in Chinese cinema and street scenes of globalization.
Popular culture
Postmodernism