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

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Memory and History in Globalization

PART 1: TOWARD A CRITICAL HISTORICAL CONSCIOUSNESS

1.Tradition, Memory, and Hope: Lu Xun and Critical Historical Consciousness

2.Tragic Vision, Traumatic Visuality, and the Montage of History

PART 2: POSTREVOLUTIONARY TRAUMA AND THE RECONSTRUCTION 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

PART 3: GLOBALIZATION, NOSTALGIA, RESISTANCE

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

Notes

Chinese Names and Terms

Bibliography

Index

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