Kirk A Denton
Biographic Data
| ID | 284547 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kirk A Denton |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kirk A |
| FAMILY NAME | Denton |
| SIGNATURE | DENTON K A |
| AFFILIATIONS | The Ohio State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
A Short History of MCLC on Its 50th Anniversary
Lu Town: Theme Parks and the Commodification of Literary Culture in China
This essay investigates Lu Town, a theme park dedicated to the writer Lu Xun (1881–1936) that was established in Shaoxing, China, in 2003. The theme park is a recreation of a fictional town that is an amalgamation of settings from some of Lu Xun’s short stories. The essay seeks to answer the following questions: What happens when the works of a complex and serious writer get popularized in the three-dimensional form of a themed space? Why would o…
The Landscape of Historical Memory: The Politics of Museums and Memorial Culture in Post-Martial Law Taiwan
The Landscape of Historical Memory explores the place of museums and memorial culture in the contestation over historical memory in post–martial law Taiwan. The book is particularly oriented toward the role of politics—especially political parties—in the establishment, administration, architectural design, and historical narratives of museums. It is framed around the wrangling between the “blue camp” (the Nationalist Party, or KMT, and its suppor…
The Landscape of Historical Memory: The Politics of Museums and Memorial Culture in Post–Martial Law Taiwan
Maoist Propaganda: Mere Political Ideology or Vibrant Popular Culture
To regard Chinese popular culture of the Mao era as “propaganda” constructed through the ideological apparatus, is a common approach. However, one can take a different, soberer research position and try to discern other dimensions in the cultural texts of this era. Such a novel, more complex understanding allows us to see vibrant popular culture beyond the obvious ideologically-driven narratives of the Cultural Revolution. The efficacy of this mu…
Jottings under Lamplight
Lu Xun, Returning Home, and May Fourth Modernity
Leaving home was the quintessential modern act for Chinese intellectuals in the early twentieth century, as home had come to represent cultural backwardness and oppression by the early Republican period. At the same time as they wrote of leaving it, however, modern Chinese writers also often wrote of returning home. This chapter analyzes the complex relationships between the individual and his home in Lu Xun’s first-person reminiscences. As repre…
The Columbia Companion to Modern Chinese Literature
The Columbia Companion to Modern Chinese Literature features more than fifty short essays on specific writers and literary trends from the Qing period (1895–1911) to the present. Both a teaching tool and a go-to research companion, this volume is a one-of-a-kind resource for mastering modern literature in the Chinese-speaking world
Exhibiting the Past: China's Nanjing Massacre Memorial Museum
When the CCP came to power in 1949, it proceeded to nationalize all culture industries and cultural institutions, including museums, and to develop them in ways that would align them with the new ideology of state socialism. National, provincial, and local governments promoted, funded, and constructed many new museums. Not long after the liberation of Beijing, the Central Committee sought to establish a Museum of the Chinese Revolution to present…
Heroic Resistance and Victims of Atrocity: Negotiating the Memory of Japanese Imperialism in Chinese Museums
This essay explores representations of Japanese imperialism and war in museums of the People's Republic of China. With the post-Mao reforms, there has been a general trend in such representations toward an emphasis on atrocity and victimization and away from the narratives of heroic resistance that dominated in the Mao era. Yet, the museum curators in these museums must negotiate between these two representations in trying to make the war relevan…
Museums, Memorial Sites and Exhibitionary Culture in the People's Republic of China
this article presents an overview of post-mao museum representations of modern chinese history. the focus is on changing exhibitionary practices and historical narratives in prc history museums in the period of market reforms and globalization. it shows how new museum architecture, the place of museum buildings in the cityscape and new exhibitionary technologies (such as multimedia displays, dioramas, miniatures) are tied to new narratives of his…
Love-Letters and Privacy in Modern China: The Intimate Lives of Lu Xun and Xu Guangping
1. Introduction PART I: INTIMATE LIVES 2. Xu Guangping 'In the Front Row': 1898-1925 3. Lu Xun's 'Live Without Love': 1881-1925 4. Courtship: March 1925-August 1926 5. Separation: September 1926-January 1927 6. Living Together: January 1929-June 1929 7. Birth and Death: 1929-1968 PART II: REAL AND IMAGINED LETTERS 8. Traditional Chinese and Western Letters 9. Modern Chinese Letters and Epistolary Fiction 10. The Making of Letters Between Two 11. …
The Columbia Companion to Modern East Asian Literature
This extraordinary one-volume guide to the modern literatures of China, Japan, and Korea is the definitive reference work on the subject in the English language. With more than one hundred articles that show how a host of authors and literary movements have contributed to the general literary development of their respective countries, this companion is an essential starting point for the study of East Asian literatures. Comprehensive thematic ess…
The Uses of Literature: Life in the Socialist Chinese Literary System
The Problematic of Self in Modern Chinese Literature: Hu Feng and Lu Ling
Modern Chinese Literary Thought: Writings on Literature, 1893-1945
This volume presents a broad range of writings on literature from the period of the inception of literary modernity in China. Of the 55 essays included, 47 are translated here for the first time, including two essays by Lu Xun. In addition to the selections themselves, the author has provided, in an extensive General Introduction and shorter introductions to the five parts of the book, historical background, a synthesis of current scholarship on …
Love-Letters and Privacy in Modern China: The Intimate Lives of Lu Xun and Xu Guangping
1. Introduction PART I: INTIMATE LIVES 2. Xu Guangping 'In the Front Row': 1898-1925 3. Lu Xun's 'Live Without Love': 1881-1925 4. Courtship: March 1925-August 1926 5. Separation: September 1926-January 1927 6. Living Together: January 1929-June 1929 7. Birth and Death: 1929-1968 PART II: REAL AND IMAGINED LETTERS 8. Traditional Chinese and Western Letters 9. Modern Chinese Letters and Epistolary Fiction 10. The Making of Letters Between Two 11. …
Modern Chinese Literary Thought: Writings on Literature, 1893-1945
This volume presents a broad range of writings on literature from the period of the inception of literary modernity in China. Of the 55 essays included, 47 are translated here for the first time, including two essays by Lu Xun. In addition to the selections themselves, the author has provided, in an extensive General Introduction and shorter introductions to the five parts of the book, historical background, a synthesis of current scholarship on …
The Problematic of Self in Modern Chinese Literature: Hu Feng and Lu Ling
The Uses of Literature: Life in the Socialist Chinese Literary System
The Columbia Companion to Modern East Asian Literature
This extraordinary one-volume guide to the modern literatures of China, Japan, and Korea is the definitive reference work on the subject in the English language. With more than one hundred articles that show how a host of authors and literary movements have contributed to the general literary development of their respective countries, this companion is an essential starting point for the study of East Asian literatures. Comprehensive thematic ess…
Love-Letters and Privacy in Modern China: The Intimate Lives of Lu Xun and Xu Guangping
1. Introduction PART I: INTIMATE LIVES 2. Xu Guangping 'In the Front Row': 1898-1925 3. Lu Xun's 'Live Without Love': 1881-1925 4. Courtship: March 1925-August 1926 5. Separation: September 1926-January 1927 6. Living Together: January 1929-June 1929 7. Birth and Death: 1929-1968 PART II: REAL AND IMAGINED LETTERS 8. Traditional Chinese and Western Letters 9. Modern Chinese Letters and Epistolary Fiction 10. The Making of Letters Between Two 11. …
Museums, Memorial Sites and Exhibitionary Culture in the People's Republic of China
this article presents an overview of post-mao museum representations of modern chinese history. the focus is on changing exhibitionary practices and historical narratives in prc history museums in the period of market reforms and globalization. it shows how new museum architecture, the place of museum buildings in the cityscape and new exhibitionary technologies (such as multimedia displays, dioramas, miniatures) are tied to new narratives of his…
Heroic Resistance and Victims of Atrocity: Negotiating the Memory of Japanese Imperialism in Chinese Museums
This essay explores representations of Japanese imperialism and war in museums of the People's Republic of China. With the post-Mao reforms, there has been a general trend in such representations toward an emphasis on atrocity and victimization and away from the narratives of heroic resistance that dominated in the Mao era. Yet, the museum curators in these museums must negotiate between these two representations in trying to make the war relevan…
Exhibiting the Past: China's Nanjing Massacre Memorial Museum
When the CCP came to power in 1949, it proceeded to nationalize all culture industries and cultural institutions, including museums, and to develop them in ways that would align them with the new ideology of state socialism. National, provincial, and local governments promoted, funded, and constructed many new museums. Not long after the liberation of Beijing, the Central Committee sought to establish a Museum of the Chinese Revolution to present…
Lu Xun, Returning Home, and May Fourth Modernity
Leaving home was the quintessential modern act for Chinese intellectuals in the early twentieth century, as home had come to represent cultural backwardness and oppression by the early Republican period. At the same time as they wrote of leaving it, however, modern Chinese writers also often wrote of returning home. This chapter analyzes the complex relationships between the individual and his home in Lu Xun’s first-person reminiscences. As repre…
The Columbia Companion to Modern Chinese Literature
The Columbia Companion to Modern Chinese Literature features more than fifty short essays on specific writers and literary trends from the Qing period (1895–1911) to the present. Both a teaching tool and a go-to research companion, this volume is a one-of-a-kind resource for mastering modern literature in the Chinese-speaking world
Jottings under Lamplight
Maoist Propaganda: Mere Political Ideology or Vibrant Popular Culture
To regard Chinese popular culture of the Mao era as “propaganda” constructed through the ideological apparatus, is a common approach. However, one can take a different, soberer research position and try to discern other dimensions in the cultural texts of this era. Such a novel, more complex understanding allows us to see vibrant popular culture beyond the obvious ideologically-driven narratives of the Cultural Revolution. The efficacy of this mu…
The Landscape of Historical Memory: The Politics of Museums and Memorial Culture in Post-Martial Law Taiwan
The Landscape of Historical Memory explores the place of museums and memorial culture in the contestation over historical memory in post–martial law Taiwan. The book is particularly oriented toward the role of politics—especially political parties—in the establishment, administration, architectural design, and historical narratives of museums. It is framed around the wrangling between the “blue camp” (the Nationalist Party, or KMT, and its suppor…
The Landscape of Historical Memory: The Politics of Museums and Memorial Culture in Post–Martial Law Taiwan
Lu Town: Theme Parks and the Commodification of Literary Culture in China
This essay investigates Lu Town, a theme park dedicated to the writer Lu Xun (1881–1936) that was established in Shaoxing, China, in 2003. The theme park is a recreation of a fictional town that is an amalgamation of settings from some of Lu Xun’s short stories. The essay seeks to answer the following questions: What happens when the works of a complex and serious writer get popularized in the three-dimensional form of a themed space? Why would o…
A Short History of MCLC on Its 50th Anniversary
History (13 works) · Art (10 works) · Literature (10 works) · Chinese history and philosophy (9 works) · China (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Politics (6 works) · Archaeology (5 works)