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The Sublime Figure of History, Ban Wang

Description: The Sublime Figure of History: Aesthetics and Politics in Twentieth-Century China, Ban Wang Format 328 pages, Hardcover Published June 1, 1997 by Stanford University Press Used - Condition LIKE NEW Through a comparative analysis of diverse texts and contexts, this book offers a cultural history of the interplay between the aesthetic and the political in the formation of personal and collective identity that crystallizes into the Chinese aesthetic of the sublime. It describes how various kinds of politics are aestheticized and how aesthetic manifestations are bound up with prevalent ideologies and politics. In this book, politics refers to various projects for fashioning a viable self, a workable personal and collective identity in the crisis-ridden history of modern China. These projects include imagining a political subject adapted to the modern nation-state, mobilizing revolutionary masses as subjects of the Communist state, sustaining a unified self despite the challenges to traditional culture, erecting the sublime figure of the revolutionary hero, and, finally, debunking the grand images of the hero and history in post-Mao culture. Throughout, the author seeks to delineate the ways the political masquerades as aesthetic discourse and aesthetic experience. Covering a wide range of material from fiction, poetry, aesthetics, and political discourse to memoirs, film, and historical documents, the book reconsiders a number of prominent cultural figures, including Wang Guowei, Cai Yuanpei, Lu Xun, Eileen Chang, Mao Zedong, Zhu Guangqian, and Li Zehou. It also analyzes such important cultural features and events as Western influences on the formation of modern Chinese aesthetic discourse, modernist writings, Revolutionary Cinema, the Cultural Revolution, and New Wave Fiction. An East-West comparative approach informs the analysis, which engages in dialogue with Kant, Hegel, Freud, Marx, and Walter Benjamin, as well as Terry Eagleton and other contemporary critics. The author's interdisciplinary method, which emphasizes the interaction among text, context, and the psyche, both presents new materials and illuminates familiar texts and phenomena from the perspective of the political-aesthetic nexus.

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Book Title: The Sublime Figure Of History

Number of Pages: 328 Pages

Language: English

Publication Name: Sublime Figure of History : Aesthetics and Politics in Twentieth-Century China

Publisher: Stanford University Press

Subject: Asian / Chinese, General, Aesthetics, Asia / China

Publication Year: 1997

Item Height: 1 in

Item Weight: 22.7 Oz

Type: Textbook

Item Length: 9.3 in

Author: Ban Wang

Subject Area: Art, Philosophy, Biography & Autobiography, History

Item Width: 7.4 in

Format: Hardcover

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