Material Mediations: People and Things in a World of Movement. Crafting Chinese Memories : : The Art and Materiality of Storytelling / / ed. by Katherine Swancutt.
Through an interdisciplinary conversation with contributors from social anthropology, religious studies, film studies, literary studies, cultural studies, and history, Crafting Chinese Memories is a novel book which addresses how works of art shape memories, and offers new ways of conceptualising st...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2021 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2021] ©2021 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Material Mediations: People and Things in a World of Movement ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (240 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Figures
- Foreword: Conceptualizing Chinese Memories
- Introduction: Materiality, Imagination and the Memorable
- Part I CURATING MEMORIES THROUGH ART AND FILM
- 1 The Memory Palace of a Chinese Painter
- 2 JIA ZHANGKE’S MEMORY PROJECT, 24 CITY Rewriting History, Rethinking Historiography
- Part II FRAMING MEMORIES THROUGH LITERATURE AND THE BODY
- 3 ‘Swimming against the Current’ The Mediation of Cultural Memory in the Writings by Christa Wolf and Ding Ling
- 4 CHINESE BODY-EXPRESSION AND CULTURAL MEMORY IN MO YAN’S BIG BREASTS & WIDE HIPS
- 5 Remembering Statelessness in Food Stories from Jewish Shanghai
- PART III PROPAGATING MEMORIES THROUGH STORYTELLING
- 6 From Personal Connections to Mutual Trust: Building Memories with the Children of the Chinese Staff of the Chinese Maritime Customs Service
- 7 Jailhouse Blues, Storytelling and Becoming the Stuff of Legends in Southwest China
- Conclusion: Layers, Traces, Fields and Storehouses of Memory
- Index