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Laughlin, Charles Andrew.

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Narrating the nation: The aesthetics of historical experience in Chinese reportage literature, 1919-1966.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Narrating the nation: The aesthetics of historical experience in Chinese reportage literature, 1919-1966./
Author:	Laughlin, Charles Andrew.
Description:	503 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 57-05, Section: A, page: 2043.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International57-05A.
Subject:	Asian literature. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=9631733

Narrating the nation: The aesthetics of historical experience in Chinese reportage literature, 1919-1966.
Laughlin, Charles Andrew.

Narrating the nation: The aesthetics of historical experience in Chinese reportage literature, 1919-1966. - 503 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 57-05, Section: A, page: 2043.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Columbia University, 1996.

The aim of this dissertation is to examine the canon of reportage created by the Chinese communist cultural institution with a view to reconstructing the aesthetic strategies of reportage writing. My conclusion is that reportage is indeed a form of literature in China, but in order for us to view it as such we have to reconsider the question of what literature is. In particular, I question the centrality of the individual subject to our conception of modern literary expression, as well as our tendency to draw a strict line between literary worlds and the "real" world of social life.Subjects--Topical Terms:

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Asian literature.

Narrating the nation: The aesthetics of historical experience in Chinese reportage literature, 1919-1966.
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502 $a Thesis (Ph.D.)--Columbia University, 1996.
520 $a The aim of this dissertation is to examine the canon of reportage created by the Chinese communist cultural institution with a view to reconstructing the aesthetic strategies of reportage writing. My conclusion is that reportage is indeed a form of literature in China, but in order for us to view it as such we have to reconsider the question of what literature is. In particular, I question the centrality of the individual subject to our conception of modern literary expression, as well as our tendency to draw a strict line between literary worlds and the "real" world of social life.
520 $a The treatment of space and action in each type of reportage reflects, to a certain extent, the different types of actual space (i.e., the city streets, the factory floor, the battlefield) depicted, but in another important sense each type reflects a different way of seeing China and imagining history. I divide Chinese reportage into five major types based on the space each type elaborates. Thus my chapter on travel writing emphasizes the road or journey as a historical trope; the narration of public demonstrations features a theatricalization of urban space; I develop a notion of factoryscape as the structure of signification in the reportage of industrial labor conditions; in the reportage of war, national identity is figured by elaborating a relationship between the subject and China based on the body as a figurative trope; finally, I interpret the reportage of the communist regime in terms of a utopian aesthetic through which public space extends into the subjectivity of the characters and narrator.
520 $a By thus drawing attention to the aesthetic side of documentary writing, I describe modern Chinese history as a particular kind of subjective experience, and depart from the usual stereotype of leftist culture in China as a univocal, self-fulfilling battery of policies. I also demonstrate how in the hands of its practicioners, leftist culture developed into a living imaginative tradition which has significantly influenced the whole of modern Chinese culture.
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