Yiran Zheng

Writing Beijing

Urban Spaces and Cultural Imaginations in Contemporary Chinese Literature and Films

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Produktbeschreibung

This study investigates some literary configurations of Beijing through contemporary Chinese literature and films. These configurations as "revolutionary Beijing", "traditional and masculine Beijing", "global Beijing as a Urban Dream" are built upon three specific urban spaces: military compound, traditional dwellings, and some post-modern architectures. Representation of these spaces are revealed to be the projections of some writers and filmmakers’ own cultural imaginations.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 168
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. April 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 408g
• ISBN-13: 9781498531016
• ISBN-10: 1498531016
• Artikelnr.: 44215735

Autorenporträt

Yiran Zheng is assistant professor at the Institute for Cultural Studies at Capital Normal University (CNU), Beijing.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents
List of Figures
Introduction
Part I
Chapter 1 Work Unit Compound: An Emergence of a New Urban Space
Chapter 2 "Gongheguo xingui (New Aristocrats of the PRC)"
Chapter 3 Red Nostalgia in the Literature of Military Compound
Part II
Chapter 4 Siheyuan: Signifier of Traditional and Masculine City
Chapter 5 Second-generation Beijing Flavor Writers
Chapter 6 Traditional Beijing and Masculine Beijing in Second-generation
Beijing Flavor Literature
Part III
Chapter 7 Modern and Postmodern Architectures: Presentations of the Global
Context
Chapter 8 Beijing Floaters
Chapter 9 Cosmopolitan Metropolis as An Urban Dream in Six-generation Films
Conclusion
References
About the Author