In this Book
- Brushing History Against the Grain: Reading the Chinese New Historical Fiction (1986-1999)
- Book
- 2005
- Published by: Hong Kong University Press, HKU
summary
This book explores some essential features of the Chinese new historical fiction (NHF) and its socio-cultural implications. It argues that the NHF constitutes an oppositional discourse that rejects, both the grand narrative of linear (revolutionary) history, which dominates Chinese official historiography, and naïve confidence in ‘Chinese modernity.’
Table of Contents
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- Acknowledgements
- p. vii
- Introduction
- pp. 1-25
- 1 - Towards a Delineation
- pp. 27-56
- 2 - The Tyranny of Time
- pp. 57-81
- 3 - The Proliferation of Heterotopias
- pp. 83-113
- 4 - Writing Decadence as Allegory
- pp. 115-132
- 5 - Constructing a "Clean Spirit"
- pp. 133-150
- 6 - Writing the Peripheral into Dictionary
- pp. 151-174
- 7 - History, Fiction, and Metafiction
- pp. 175-206
- Works Cited
- pp. 235-249
Additional Information
ISBN
9789882200456
Related ISBN(s)
9789622096974
MARC Record
OCLC
649833059
Pages
256
Launched on MUSE
2012-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No
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