Witness Against History - Braester, Yomi
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This study offers fresh, theoretically informed readings of milestones in Chinese fiction, film, and drama spanning the entire twentieth century. Drawing on rare archival material, it argues that they have challenged social reformers' call for changing the course of history. In doing so it makes a methodological point of interest to historians, literary scholars, and social scientists concerned with the relation between literature and testimony, literature and history, and literature and the public sphere. The book argues that literary texts are fundamentally different from historical texts and from programmatic essays. >…mehr

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This study offers fresh, theoretically informed readings of milestones in Chinese fiction, film, and drama spanning the entire twentieth century. Drawing on rare archival material, it argues that they have challenged social reformers' call for changing the course of history. In doing so it makes a methodological point of interest to historians, literary scholars, and social scientists concerned with the relation between literature and testimony, literature and history, and literature and the public sphere. The book argues that literary texts are fundamentally different from historical texts and from programmatic essays. >
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Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and a member of the Cinema Studies Program at the University of Washington.