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(Ebook) The Monster That Is History: History, Violence, and Fictional Writing in Twentieth-Century China by David Der-Wei Wang ISBN 9780520231405, 0520231406

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Authors:David Der-Wei Wang
Pages:412 pages.
Year:2004
Editon:1
Publisher:University of California Press
Language:english
File Size:2.61 MB
Format:pdf
ISBNS:9780520231405, 0520231406
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(Ebook) The Monster That Is History: History, Violence, and Fictional Writing in Twentieth-Century China by David Der-Wei Wang ISBN 9780520231405, 0520231406

In ancient China a monster called Taowu was known for both its vicious nature and its power to see the past and the future. Over the centuries Taowu underwent many incarnations until it became identifiable with history itself. Since the seventeenth century, fictive accounts of history have accommodated themselves to the monstrous nature of Taowu. 

Moving effortlessly across the entire twentieth-century literary landscape, David Der-wei Wang delineates the many meanings of Chinese violence and its literary manifestations. Taking into account the campaigns of violence and brutality that have rocked generations of Chinese-often in the name of enlightenment, rationality, and utopian plenitude-this book places its arguments along two related axes: history and representation, modernity and monstrosity. Wang considers modern Chinese history as a complex of geopolitical, ethnic, gendered, and personal articulations of bygone and ongoing events. His discussion ranges from the politics of decapitation to the poetics of suicide, and from the typology of hunger and starvation to the technology of crime and punishment.

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