Tapestry of Light

Aesthetic Afterlives of the Cultural Revolution
Erscheinungsjahr 2014
ISBN: 978-90-04-28553-8
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 10, 150 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 386 g

Reihe: Ideas, History, and Modern China

Tapestry of Light offers an account of the psychic, intellectual, and cultural aftermath of the Chinese Cultural Revolution. Drawing on a wide range of works including essay, fiction, memoir, painting and film, the book explores links between history, trauma and haunting. Challenging the leftist currents in Cultural Revolution scholarship, the tone pervading the book is a rhythm of melancholia, indeterminacy but also hope. Huang demonstrates that aesthetic afterlives resist both the conservative nostalgia for China’s revolutionary past as well as China’s elated, false confidence in the market-driven future.

Huang engages with prominent Chinese intellectuals, writers, artists and filmmakers, including Ba Jin, Han Shaogong, Hong Ying, Zhang Xiaogang, Jiang Wen and Ann Hui.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Huang, Yiju

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunststile Asiatische Kunst
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien Marxismus, Kommunismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ästhetik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents

Acknowledgments

1
Introduction
Embroidering a Tapestry of Hope

2
Familial Secrets
Mao’s Famine in Hong Ying’s Daughter of the River

3
Aesthetic of Heterogeneity
Roots in Han Shaogong’s Theoretical and Literary Writings

4
Ghostly Vision
Zhang Xiaogang’s “Bloodline: Big Family”

5
Protean Youth
Redemptive Poetics in In the Heat of the Sun and The Postmodern Life of My Aunt

Coda
Ba Jin: Toward an Ethical Relation to History

Bibliography

Über Autor(innen)

Yiju Huang, Ph.D. (2011), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, is assistant professor of Chinese Studies at Bowling Green State University. Her recent publications include an article on French philosopher Alain Badiou’s writing on the Chinese Cultural Revolution.