Through analyses of a wide range of Chinese literary and visual
texts from the beginning of the twentieth century through the
contemporary period, the thirteen essays in this volume challenge
the view that canonical and popular culture are self-evident and
diametrically opposed categories, and instead argue that the two
cultural sensibilities are inextricably bound up with one
another.
An international line up of contributors present detailed
analyses of literary works and other cultural products that have
previously been neglected by scholars, while also examining more
familiar authors and works from provocative new angles.The essays
include investigations into the cultural industries and contexts
that produce the canonical and popular, the position of
contemporary popular works at the interstices of nostalgia and
amnesia, and also the ways in which cultural texts are inflected
with gendered and erotic sensibilities while at the same time also
functioning as objects of desire in its own right.
As the only volume of its kind to cover the entire span of the
20th century, and also to consider the interplay of popular and
canonical literature in modern China with comparable rigor,
Rethinking Chinese Popular Culture is an important resource for
students and scholars of Chinese literature and culture.
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