Author : Qingxin Lin
Release : 2005-01-01
Genre : Language Arts & Disciplines
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 974/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Brushing History Against the Grain by : Qingxin Lin
Download or read book Brushing History Against the Grain written by Qingxin Lin. This book was released on 2005-01-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores some essential features of the Chinese new historical fiction (NHF) and its socio-cultural implications. It argues that the NHF constitutes an oppositional discourse that rejects, both the grand narrative of linear (revolutionary) history, which dominates Chinese official historiography, and naïve confidence in 'Chinese modernity.'