1st Edition

Space, Politics, and Cultural Representation in Modern China Cartographies of Revolution

By Enhua Zhang Copyright 2017
238 Pages 15 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

238 Pages 15 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

238 Pages 15 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Regarding revolution as a spatial practice, this book explores modes of spatial construction in modern China through a panoramic overview of major Chinese revolutionary events and nuanced analysis of cultural representations. Examining the relationship between revolution, space, and culture in modern China the author takes five spatially significant revolutionary events as case studies - the... Read more

Introduction - Map Unrolled, Dagger Revealed: Geography, Humans, and Violence 1. The Will to Land, The Will to Revolution: Land Reform in Political and Literary Manifestation in Late 1920s and Early 1930s China 2. The Long March: From a Search for a Promised Land to a Site of Memory 3. In Search of a Home(land): Stranded Intellectuals—Xiao Hong vs. Ding Ling 4. Dialectics of Retreat and Return: Spatial Imagination Between the Mainland and Taiwan in the 1950s 5. The Specters of Revolution Haunting China: A Phantasmatic Space of the Cultural Revolution. Coda - Cartography of Revolution: The Entire Nation Is Red

Biography

Enhua Zhang is Assistant Professor of Chinese Literature and Culture at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA. She is the co-editor of Red Legacies in China: Cultural Afterlives of the Communist Revolution (2016).