Old Stories Retold : Narrative and Vanishing Pasts in Modern China 9781461633952, 9780739123621

Old Stories Retold explores the ways modern Chinese narratives dramatize and embody the historical sense that links them

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Old Stories Retold : Narrative and Vanishing Pasts in Modern China
9781461633952, 9780739123621

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

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Zhong Lihe's fictional portraits unfold on Japanese battlefields and in Peking slums, as well as in the remote, imp

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China is undergoing the biggest and fastest societal and economic change in human history. Driving this dizzying transfo

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Aswath Damodaran, finance professor and experienced investor, argues that the power of story drives corporate value, add

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The law is full of stories, ranging from the competing narratives presented at trials to the Olympian historical narrati

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In this study of desire in Late Imperial China, Martin W. Huang argues that the development of traditional Chinese ficti

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The devil is perhaps the single-most recurring character in Old English narrative literature. Dendle argues that the dev

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Analyzing the protracted cultural debate in modern China over what and how women should write, this book focuses on two

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Presents a survey of the aims, curricula, and textbooks used in China from 1860-1930 to give a hint to the mental attitu

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Genetic Ancestry focuses on the scientific nature and limitations of genetic ancestry testing. Co-authored by a genetic

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