National Past-Times: Narrative, Representation, and Power in Modern China 0822319691, 9780822319696

In National Past-Times, Ann Anagnost explores the fashioning and refashioning of modern Chinese subjectivity as it relat

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National Past-Times: Narrative, Representation, and Power in Modern China
0822319691, 9780822319696

In the last quarter century, Scottish novelists from Muriel Spark, Alasdair Gray and Allan Massie to James Kelman, Janic

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