... and theoretical structure to fundamentally rethink the role of translation in modern China's struggle with modernity. The Translatability of Revolution: Guo Moruo and Twentieth-Century Chinese Culture . Pu Wang . CAMBRIDGE, MA : HARVARD UNIVERSITY ASIA CENTER , 2018 . 336 PP. Copyright ©...

..., such that it even generates its own antithesis in terms of hegemony and totalitarianism. Above all, Liu and Li derive their critical stance from none other than Lu Xun, who set out to critique as early as 1927: “Revolution, revolutionize revolution, revolutionize revolutionized revolution, revolutionize...

..., or other highly acrobatic kung fu moves. The second technique is called wire fu (wire work and kung fu), which used wires and pulleys to hold actors in midair during a fight scene. The arrival of Tsui Hark on the scene, however, completely revolutionized martial arts cinema and made it appear more modern...

...Xiaobing Tang Abstract “The Answer,” a poem by Bei Dao first published in 1978, marks the emergence of a defiant voice in contemporary Chinese poetry and asserts skepticism as the political stance of a young generation in post–Cultural Revolution China. It also heralds a historic transition from...

... Forward, and the Cultural Revolution. Li applies a holistic and coherent view of Mao's era by privileging continuity over rupture. Although an account of Mao's China guided with this integrative approach may seem teleological to some, Utopian Ruins points to a perpetual tendency throughout the socialist...

... history, memory, and literature when it comes to political violence and traumatic experiences, such as the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution? These are questions at the center of modern and contemporary Chinese literary studies. There have been a number of works focusing on the issues...

... photographs with different material substrates” (26). Examples of photo-forms include the deleted film scene portraying the Nanjing Massacre that later achieved an afterlife on a Nordstrom hoodie; a series of refashioned family portraits in avant-garde artworks from after the Cultural Revolution...

... spirit of man ” (151). As a conceptual corollary, Crespi's formulation brings to mind Barbara Mittler's reading of Cultural Revolution lianhuanhua as “chain pictures” that had the power to “chain” their unwitting readers to Maoist ideology. 2 Is this (as Crespi encourages us to consider) another...

... disillusionment. There is the disillusionment accompanying the suppression of personal and collective aspirations, as well as the disillusionment arising from filling the ideological void after the Cultural Revolution with empty capitalist pursuits. For members of the older generation who were active participants...

...; or, On Institutional Time .” New Literary History 42 , no. 4 ( 2011 ): 739 – 56 . He, Henry Yuhuai . Dictionary of the Political Thought of the People's Republic of China . Armonk, NY : Sharpe , 2001 . Henningsen, Lena . Cultural Revolution Manuscripts: Unofficial Entertainment Fiction from...

.... Recognized by theorists and philosophers as contradictions at the heart of Marxist ideology, the core issues in the debate were avidly discussed over the twentieth century. The early to mid-1960s, when the debate took place, immediately preceded the Cultural Revolution, a time when radical Maoism reached its...

... of Chicago Press , 2013 . Leese, Daniel . Mao Cult: Rhetoric and Ritual in China's Cultural Revolution . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2011 . Li Zehou 李澤厚 . Huaxia meixue: Meixue sijiang 華夏美學:美學四講 [ Chinese Aesthetics: Four Essays on Aesthetics ]. Beijing : Sanlian shudian...

...” as intersecting with three major discourses between the May Fourth Movement and the eve of the Cultural Revolution: enlightenment, revolution, and socialist industrialization. The six chapters of the book are chronologically organized into three parts, each of which focuses on one of these discourses and related...

... an attempt at arrogance.” In other words, it was too demanding, too arrogant, and too pretentious. Guo solemnly broke with the May Fourth spirit and publicly altered his maxim to let revolutionism conquer individualism, calling for the opening to the new era of “revolution literature.” (2) The second...

... in its entirety. In their own cultural revolution, the peasants overcome their traditional passivity and isolation and become “communicative, cooperative, and articulate as an active collective subject.” 5 Social relations, emotions, and subjectivities are visceral and embodied experiences vital...

... during the Cultural Revolution (1966–1976), appropriates indigenous ecological perspectives to criticize Maoist destruction of the environment and concomitant undermining of neo-Confucian values. 5 These Beijing Westerns produce Hanspace cosmological mappings of “peripheral” ecologies long considered...

... in the novel. Chronologically, we can situate this statement in the time period of the Cultural Revolution. It first appears in the part right before Fatima discusses the impact of the Cultural Revolution on her village and her family in Da Nanpo. According to Fatima, her father enjoys bragging about his...

..., evoking cultural and temporal hybridities that fuse social continuity with the threat and promise of change. These rural women singers form a subset of the female characters in modern Chinese literature who serve as symbols of the nation and revolution, 2 depicting boundaries of social...

... fight rampant in the anarchic Beijing during the initial years of the Cultural Revolution. The climax takes place on the day of the final showdown. Before reaching his rivals, Mr. Six collapses onto a frozen lake due to a fatal heart attack, while old friends from his hooligan days carry...

... the Seventeen-Year Period (i.e., the seventeen years from the establishment of the People’s Republic of China [PRC] in 1949 to the beginning of the Cultural Revolution in 1966) and has gained substantial traction in contemporary literary studies. Huang Ziping uses the label revolutionary historical fiction (革...