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National Past-Times: Narrative, Representation, and Power in Modern China
Ann Anagnost
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Description for National Past-Times: Narrative, Representation, and Power in Modern China
Paperback. Explores the fashioning and refashioning of modern Chinese subjectivity as it relates to the literal and figurative body of the nation. This book contains essays that reveal the particular temporality of the modern Chinese nation-state. Series: Body, Commodity, Text. Num Pages: 240 pages, 6 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: 1FPC; JFC; JHM; JPFN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 152 x 229 x 18. Weight in Grams: 408.
In National Past-Times, Ann Anagnost explores the fashioning and refashioning of modern Chinese subjectivity as it relates to the literal and figurative body of the nation. In essays revealing the particular temporality of the modern Chinese nation-state, Anagnost examines the disparate eras of its recent past and its propensity for continually looking backward in order to face the future.
Using interviews and participant observation as well as close readings of official documents, propaganda materials, and popular media, Anagnost notes the discontinuities in the nation’s narrative—moments where this narrative has been radically reorganized at critical junctures in China’s modern history. ... Read more
In National Past-Times, Ann Anagnost explores the fashioning and refashioning of modern Chinese subjectivity as it relates to the literal and figurative body of the nation. In essays revealing the particular temporality of the modern Chinese nation-state, Anagnost examines the disparate eras of its recent past and its propensity for continually looking backward in order to face the future.
Using interviews and participant observation as well as close readings of official documents, propaganda materials, and popular media, Anagnost notes the discontinuities in the nation’s narrative—moments where this narrative has been radically reorganized at critical junctures in China’s modern history. ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Duke University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Series
Body, Commodity, Text
Condition
New
Weight
407g
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
North Carolina, United States
ISBN
9780822319696
SKU
V9780822319696
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About Ann Anagnost
Ann Anagnost is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Washington.
Reviews for National Past-Times: Narrative, Representation, and Power in Modern China
"These are essays in cultural criticism of a type rare in the China field. They have the power to make one regard the everyday differently."—Gail Hershatter, University of California at Santa Cruz