TY  - BOOK
AU  - Choy,Howard Y.F.
TI  - Remapping the past: fictions of history in Deng's China, 1979 -1997 
T2  - Brill eBook titles 2008
SN  - 9789047442783
AV  - PL2443 .C4455 2008
U1  - 895.1/090052 22
PY  - 2008///
CY  - Boston
PB  - Brill
KW  - Chinese fiction
KW  - 20th century
KW  - History and criticism
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. [249]-269) and index; Preliminary Materials; H.Y.F. Choy --; Introduction Narrative And Space:A Cartography Of History; H.Y.F. Choy --; Chapter One. Regional Romances And Family Fables: From Root Search To New Historicism; H.Y.F. Choy --; Chapter Two. The Outlying And The Peripheral: Myths Of Migrants And Minorities; H.Y.F. Choy --; Chapter Three. From The Country To The City: Nostalgia For The Hometown; H.Y.F. Choy --; Chapter Four. The Bodily Text And The Textual Body: The Violence Of History; H.Y.F. Choy --; Conclusion Back(Ward) To The Future: Toward A Retro-Fiction; H.Y.F. Choy --; Appendix What. Is Held And In Whose Hand? An Etymological Reexamination Of Shi; H.Y.F. Choy --; Bibliography; H.Y.F. Choy --; Index; H.Y.F. Choy; Available to subscribing member institutions only
N2  - 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
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/ej.9789004167049.i-277
ER  -