The city in modern Chinese literature & film : configurations of space, time, and gender

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Label

The city in modern Chinese literature & film : configurations of space, time, and gender

Title remainder

configurations of space, time, and gender

Statement of responsibility

Yingjin Zhang

Creator

• Zhang, Yingjin

Subject

• China
• Chinese literature
• Chinese literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
• Chinesisch
• Cinéma -- Chine
• Cities and towns
• Cities and towns -- China
• Cities and towns in literature
• Cities and towns in literature
• Cities and towns in motion pictures
• Cities and towns in motion pictures
• Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Film
• Literatur
• 1900 - 1999
• Motion pictures
• Motion pictures -- China
• Stadt <Motiv>
• Villes -- Au cinéma
• Villes -- Au cinéma.
• Villes -- Chine
• Villes -- Chine
• Villes -- Chine.
• Villes -- Dans la littérature
• Villes -- Dans la littérature.
• Villes au cinéma
• Villes dans la littérature
• Littérature chinoise -- 20e siècle -- Histoire et critique

Genre

• Criticism, interpretation, etc

Language

eng

Summary

• This study explores the ways in which the city and urban life have been represented in modern Chinese literature and film. The author has three aims: to trace the literary and filmic configurations (i.e., symbolic constructions) of the city in modern China; to investigate the ways the city is placed in an ambivalent - if not negative - light in these configurations; and to work toward an understanding of how one can study the nature of the city/country problematic in modern Chinese literary history
• The book draws upon many literary and filmic texts that have been either previously ignored or deemed of no importance, and presents them in such a way that they - together with certain canonical works interpreted from new perspectives - point to an important structure of urban imagination in modern China. Throughout, the author draws upon theoretical insights from a wide variety of disciplines - anthropology, history, psychology, sociology, as well as literature, film, and cultural studies - to illuminate particular issues

Cataloging source

DLC

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

LC call number

PL2303

LC item number

.Z43 1996

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography