Remapping the Past
Fictions of History in Deng’s China, 1979-1997
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19940733 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Howard Y F Choy (0000-0003-0759-4609, corresponding author), Howard Choy |
| Year | 2008 |
| Pages | 277 |
| Publication date | 2008-05-31 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Remapping the past (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Brill (PUBLISHER • NL) |
| DOI | 10.1163/ej.9789004167049.i-277 |
| OpenAlex | W4255217621 |
| Open Library | OL40506603M |
| ISBN | 9789004167049 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
The most prominent literary phenomenon in the 1980s and 1990s in China, historical fiction, has never been systematically surveyed in Anglophone scholarship. This is the first investigation into how, by rewriting the past, writers of Deng Xiaoping's reform era undermined the grand narrative of official history. It showcases fictions of history by eleven native Chinese, Muslim and Tibetan authors. The four chapters are organized in terms of spatial schemes of fictional historiography, namely, regional histories and family romances, discourses on diaspora and myths of minorities, nostalgia for the hometown in the country and the city, as well as the bodily text and the textual body, thus broadly covering the eternal themes of memory, language, food, sex, and violence in historical writing
Ancient history · Archaeology · Art · China · Diaspora · Epistemology · Historiography · Literacy · Literature · Mythology · Narrative · Official history · Orality · Phenomenon · Political science · Rewriting · Scholarship · Sociology · China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance · Chinese history and philosophy · Classics · Computer Science · Gender Studies · History · Japanese History and Culture · Law · Philosophy · 20th century · Chinese fiction · Chinese fiction, history and criticism · Historical fiction · Historical fiction, history and criticism · History and criticism · History in literature
| Unique citing works | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,42 |
| Citation span | 2014 - 2024 (11) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |