From Ah Q to Lei Feng : Freud and Revolutionary Spirit in 20th Century China.
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TextPublisher: Redwood City : Stanford University Press, 2008Copyright date: ©2009Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (337 pages)Content type: - text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780804769822
- Chinese literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
- Psychoanalysis and literature -- China
- Psychoanalysis and motion pictures -- China
- Literature and history -- China
- China -- History -- Cultural Revolution, 1966-1976 -- Literature and the revolution
- China -- History -- Cultural Revolution, 1966-1976 -- Motion pictures and the revolution
- 895.1/09353
- PL2303
Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Freudian Obsessions -- 2. Psychology and Freudian Sexual Theory in Early 20th Century China -- 3. Revolutionary Discourse and the Spirit: From Ah Q to Lei Feng -- 4. The Spirit of the Countryside: Mang Ke's Wild Things and Wang Xiaobo's The Golden Years -- 5. Extracting the Revolutionary Spirit: Jiang Wen's In the Heat of the Sun and Anchee Min's Red Azalea -- 6. The Workspace of a New Age Maoist:He Jianjun's The Postman -- Conclusion: History and Literary Aesthetics in the Study of Modern Chinese Culture -- Chinese and Japanese Character List -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
From Ah Q to Lei Feng traces the contrasting models of the mind provided by Freud and revolutionary Chinese culture, investigates their clash over the 20th century, and shows how writers and filmmakers negotiated with the implications of each.
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