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008 060823s2005 cc b 001 0 eng d
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050 00 $aPL2419.H57$bL56 2005
100 1 $aLin, Qingxin,$cPh.D.
245 10 $aBrushing history against the grain :$breading the Chinese new historical fiction (1986-1999) /$cLin Qingxin.
260 $aHong Kong :$bHong Kong University Press,$c2005.
300 $avi, 255 p. ;$c24 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references ([213]-249) and index.
505 0 $aIntroduction. The subordination of yanyi ; Canonizing revolution ; The new historical fiction -- Towards a delineation. Alternative histories ; Historiographic metafictions -- The tyranny of time. The birth of a temporal logic ; The Enlightenment legacy in retrospection ; Modernity and its discontents -- The proliferation of hetertopias. Mapping the geographies of the NHF ; The spatialization of time -- Writing decadence as allegory. Chinese decadence revisited ; Allegorizing historical decadence ; A rhetoric of sickness -- Constructing a "clean spirit". Writing in the Musilm way ; Aestheicizing pessimism and heterodoxy ; Journey to conversion -- Writing the peripheral into dictionary. The spatial form ; Fragments ; Rewriting history ; The power of words ; Dilemma -- History, fiction, and metafiction. Sexing Chinese history ; Living in totalitarian terror ; Intertextuality, memory and amnesia -- Conclusion : straddling traditionality and postmodernity.
546 $aEnglish with some Chinese.
650 0 $aHistorical fiction, Chinese$y20th century$zHistory and criticism.