{"product_id":"9780674045163","title":"From May Fourth to June Fourth: Fiction and Film in Twentieth-Century China","description":"\u003cp\u003e What do the Chinese literature and film inspired by the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976) have in common with the Chinese literature and film of the May Fourth movement (1918-1930)? This new book demonstrates that these two periods of the highest literary and cinematic creativity in twentieth-century China share several aims: to liberate these narrative arts from previous aesthetic orthodoxies, to draw on foreign sources for inspiration, and to free individuals from social conformity. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Although these consistencies seem readily apparent, with a sharper focus the distinguished contributors to this volume reveal that in many ways discontinuity, not continuity, prevails. Their analysis illuminates the powerful meeting place of language, imagery, and narrative with politics, history, and ideology in twentieth-century China. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Drawing on a wide range of methodologies, from formal analysis to feminist criticism, from deconstruction to cultural critique, the authors demonstrate that the scholarship of modern Chinese literature and film has become integral to contemporary critical discourse. They respond to Eurocentric theories, but their ultimate concern is literature and film in China's unique historical context. The volume illustrates three general issues preoccupying this century's scholars: the conflict of the rural search for roots and the native soil movement versus the new strains of urban exoticism; the diacritics of voice, narrative mode, and intertextuality; and the reintroduction of issues surrounding gender and subjectivity. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTable of Contents: \u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e Preface \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Acknowledgments \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Introduction\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eDavid Der-wei Wang\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003epart:1 Country and City\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 1. Visitation of the Past in Han Shaogong's Post-1985 Fiction\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eJoseph S. M. Lau\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 2. Past, Present, and Future in Mo Yan's Fiction of the 1980s\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eMichael S. Duke\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 3. Shen Congwen's Legacy in Chinese Literature of the 1980s\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eJeffrey C. Kinkley\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 4. Imaginary Nostalgia: Shen Congwen, Song Zelai, Mo Yan, and Li Yongping\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eDavid Der-wei Wang\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 5. Urban Exoticism in Modern and Contemporary Chinese Literature\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eHeinrich Fruehauf\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003epart: 2 Subjectivity and Gender\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 6. Text, Intertext, and the Representation of the Writing Self in Lu Yun, Dafu,and Wang Meng\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eYi-tsi Mei Feuerwerker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 7. Invention and Intervention: The Making of a Female Tradition in Modern Chinese Literature\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eLydia H. Liu\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 8. Living in Sin: From May Fourth via the Antirightist Movement to the Present\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eMargaret H. Decker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003epart: 3 Narrative Voice and Cinematic Vision\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 9. Lu Xun's Facetious Muse: The Creative Imperative in Modern Chinese Fiction\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eMarston Anderson\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 10. Lives in Profile: On the Authorial Voice in Modern and Contemporary Chinese Literature\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eTheodore Huters\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 11. Melodramatic Representation and the \"May Fourth\" Tradition of Chinese Cinema\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003ePaul G. Pickowicz\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 12. Male Narcissism and National Culture: Subjectivity in Chen Kaige's \u003ci\u003eKing of the Children\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eRey Chow\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Afterword: Reflections on Change and Continuity in Modern Chinese Fiction\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eLeo Ou-fan Lee\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Notes \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Contributors \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eFrom May Fourth to June Fourth\u003c\/i\u003e will he warmly welcomed. It should be of great interest to all concerned with literary developments in the contemporary world on the one hand, and on the other with the enigmas surrounding China's alternating attempts to develop and to destroy herself as a civilization.\u003cbr\u003e--Cyril Birch, University of California, Berkeley","brand":"Harvard University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47124861550832,"sku":"9780674045163","price":52.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780674045163_p0.jpg?v=1769845551","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780674045163","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}