The Lost Geopoetic Horizon of Li Jieren

The Crisis of Writing Chengdu in Revolutionary China
XIV, 320 Pp. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-90-04-29264-2
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 120, 306 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 590 g

Reihe: Sinica Leidensia

Engaged with the paradigms of cultural geography, local history, spatial politics, and everyday life, The Lost Geopoetic Horizon of Li Jieren unveils a Sichuan writer’s lifelong quest: an independent historical fiction writing project on Chengdu from the turn of the century through China’s 1911 Revolution. Kenny Kwok-kwan Ng's study illuminates the crisis of writing home in a globalized age by rescuing Li Jieren’s repeatedly revised but never finished river-novel series written from Republican to Communist China, struggling to liberate local memory from the national cum revolutionary currents. The book undercuts official historiography and rewrites Chinese literary history from the ground up by highlighting Li’s resilient geopoetics of writing that decenters the nation by adopting the place-based view of a distant province.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ng, Kenny Kwok-Kwan

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturen sonstiger Sprachräume Ost- & Südostasiatische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literatursoziologie, Gender Studies

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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Acknowledgments

1.) Introduction: The Man, The Place, The Novel
2.) From Tianhui to Chengdu: Geopoetics and Historical Imagination
3.) No Place for Good Memories: Chengdu 1911
4.) Tempest in a Teacup: Local Memorial Dynamics
5.) Love in the Time of Revolution
6.) The Road to Perdition

Conclusion: No Sense of an Ending
Appendix: Translations by Li Jieren
Works Cited
Chinese Glossary

Über Autor(innen)

Kenny Kwok-kwan Ng, Ph.D. (2004), Harvard University, is Assistant Professor of the Open University of Hong Kong. He has published English and Chinese articles on Chinese literature and cinema in the U.S., Europe, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Mainland China.