Brushing History Against the Grain: Reading the Chinese New Historical Fiction (1986-1999)
Book Details
Author(s)
Qingxin Lin
Publisher
Hong Kong University Press
ISBN / ASIN
9622096972
ISBN-13
9789622096974
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Sales Rank
#4,759,462
Category
Language Arts & Disciplines
Marketplace
United States 🇺🇸
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Description
This book explores some essential features of the Chinese new historical fiction (NHF) and its socio-cultural implications. It argues that the NHF constitutes an oppositional discourse that rejects, both the grand narrative of linear (revolutionary) history, which dominates Chinese official historiography, and naïve confidence in 'Chinese modernity.'
