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Writing Beijing : urban spaces and cultural imaginations in contemporary Chinese literature and films
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- Summary
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This study investigates some literary configurations of Beijing through contemporary Chinese literature and films. These configurations as "revolutionary Beijing", "traditional and masculine Beijin...
This study investigates some literary configurations of Beijing through contemporary Chinese literature and films. These configurations as "revolutionary Beijing", "traditional and masculine Beijing", "global Beijing as a Urban Dream" are built upon three specific urban spaces: military compound, traditional dwellings, and some post-modern architectures. Representation of these spaces are revealed to be the projections of some writers and filmmakers' own cultural imaginations.
Details
- Creator
- by Yiran Zheng
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Lanham, [Maryland] : Lexington Books, 2016
- ©2016
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (xviii, 149 pages) : illustrations
- ISBNs
- 9781498531023, 1498531024, 1498531032, 1498531016
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- English
- Contents; Figures; Introduction; P A R T I; Chapter 1. Work Unit Compound: An Emergence of a New Urban Space; Chapter 2. "Gongheguo xingui" (New Aristocrats of the PRC); Chapter 3. Red Nostalgia in the Literature of the Military Compound; P A R T I I; Chapter 4. Siheyuan: Signifier of Traditional and Masculine City; Chapter 5. Second-Generation Beijing Flavor Writers; Chapter 6. Traditional Beijing and Masculine Beijing in Second-Generation Beijing Flavor Literature; P A R T I I I; Chapter 7. Modern and Postmodern Architectures: Presentations of the Global Context; Chapter 8. Beijing Floaters
- Chapter 9. Cosmopolitan Metropolis as an Urban Dream in Sixth-Generation FilmsConclusion; References; Index; About the Author