Rewriting Collaboration
China, Japan, and the Self in the Diaries of Bai Jianwu
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3646502 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Marjorie Dryburgh (0000-0002-8459-9094, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 68 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 689-714 |
| Publication date | 2009-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of Asian Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-9118 • E-ISSN: 1752-0401 |
| Publisher | Duke University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0021911809990027 |
| OpenAlex | W2155048040 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 42 |
This essay considers the meanings of Sino-Japanese collaboration before the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937-45) through the personal diary of one collaborator, Bai Jianwu (1886-1937). Rather than debate the veracity of the diary narrative, the author considers the diary as a "political performance"-as an assembly of formulaic elements borrowed from contemporary discourse, historical example, and generic conventions that was designed to locate collaboration within a range of conceivable responses to China's predicament. While the emerging narratives of national resistance typically portrayed collaboration as an unthinkable transgression, the collaboration narrative of the diary, shifting and often ambivalent, illuminates the terms on which Bai was prepared to argue that collaboration with the Japanese was an acceptable choice, and the place that he allowed collaboration in the story of his life
Aesthetics · Ambivalence · Art · China · Literature · Media studies · Narrative · Political science · Politics · Resistance (ecology · Rewriting · Sociology · Asian Culture and Media Studies · Computer Science · Gender Studies · History · Japanese History and Culture · Law · Philippine History and Culture · Psychology · Social Psychology
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| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,07 |
| Citation span | 2011 - 2011 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |