Crafting Chinese Memories
Subtitle: The Art and Materiality of Storytelling
Series: Material Mediations: People and Things in a World of Movement Ser -- v.11; Material Mediations: People and Things in a World of Movement Ser
Publisher: Berghahn Books, Incorporated
Published: 2021
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9781800732384
Subjects: Collective memory in art; Collective memory in literature; Chinese Arts; Themes, motives
Notes: Description based upon print version of record.
Table of contents: title: Crafting Chinese Memories; title: Contents; title: Figures; title: Foreword; title: Introduction; title: Part I. Curating Memories through Art and Film; title: Chapter 1. The Memory Palace of a Chinese Painter; title: Chapter 2. Jia Zhangke's Memory Project, 24 City; title: Part II. Framing Memories through Literature and the Body; title: Chapter 3. 'Swimming against the Current'; title: Chapter 4. Chinese Body-Expression and Cultural Memory in Mo Yan's Big Breasts & Wide Hips; title: Chapter 5. Remembering Statelessness in Food Stories from Jewish Shanghai; title: Part III. Propagating Memories through Storytelling; title: Chapter 6. From Personal Connections to Mutual Trust; title: Chapter 7. Jailhouse Blues, Storytelling and Becoming the Stuff of Legends in Southwest China; title: Conclusion; title: Index