{"id":1579,"date":"2013-01-23T10:30:04","date_gmt":"2013-01-23T02:30:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=1579"},"modified":"2013-02-18T17:32:31","modified_gmt":"2013-02-18T09:32:31","slug":"chinese-literature-dissertation-reviews-huang-yijus-wounds-in-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=1579","title":{"rendered":"Chinese Literature Dissertation Reviews: Huang Yiju’s Wounds in Time"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Aesthetics <\/a>Dissertation Reviews <\/a>has posted Yiching Wu<\/a>‘s review of Yiju Huang<\/a>‘s Wounds in Time<\/a>: The Aesthetic Afterlives of the Cultural Revolution<\/em>. Here\u2019s how it begins:<\/p>\n

Yiju Huang\u2019s dissertation is an investigation of the Cultural Revolution through its aesthetic and literary afterlives in the post-Mao era. The dissertation takes as its point of departure the widespread notion that the Cultural Revolution was a \u201ccolossal catastrophe,\u201d and proceeds to examine the ways in which traumatic traces were embedded within works of literature, art, and cinema. Focusing on how people produce meanings in the aftermath of a major historical event, Huang argues against the attempts of the CCP to bring the subject of the Cultural Revolution to premature closure, in its attempt to transfer the country\u2019s attention to a fetishized future of economic development and modernization. Instead of understanding the Cultural Revolution as exclusively belonging to a bygone era, Huang urges us to reopen the subject as \u201ca nexus of unresolved and unfinished problems that spill beyond the threshold of the past\u201d (p. 4).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dissertation Reviews has posted Yiching Wu‘s review of Yiju Huang‘s Wounds in Time: The Aesthetic Afterlives of the Cultural Revolution. Here\u2019s how it begins: Yiju Huang\u2019s dissertation is an investigation of the Cultural Revolution through its aesthetic and literary afterlives … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[623,3,16],"tags":[921,922],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8srwF-pt","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1822,"url":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=1822","url_meta":{"origin":1579,"position":0},"title":"Chinese Literature Dissertation Reviews: Kuan-yun Huang’s Warring States \u201cEchoes\u201d of the Past","author":"Lucas Klein","date":"April 9, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Dissertation Reviews has posted Mick Hunter's review of Kuan-yun Huang's dissertation, Warring States \u201cEchoes\u201d of the Past. 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