Brushing History Against the Grain: Reading the Chinese New Historical Fiction (1986-1999)
ISBN: 9789882200456
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Hong Kong University Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Language & Literature;

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 na-ve confidence in 'Chinese modernity.'"


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