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From May Fourth to June Fourth : Fiction and Film in Twentieth-Century China - Ellen Widmer

From May Fourth to June Fourth

Fiction and Film in Twentieth-Century China

By: Ellen Widmer (Editor), David Der-wei Wang (Editor)

Paperback | 1 January 1993 | Edition Number 1

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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 volume in the Harvard Contemporary China Series - now under the editorial direction of Harvard University Press - demonstrates that these two periods of the highest literary and cinematic creativity in 20th-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. Although these consistencies seem readily apparent, the 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 20th century China. 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.
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From May Fourth to June Fourth 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.--Cyril Birch "University of California, Berkeley "

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