Table of Contents for
Illuminations from the Past
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Memory and History in Globalization
PART 1: TOWARD A CRITICAL HISTORICAL CONSCIOUSNESS
1. Tradition, Memory, and Hope: Lu Xun and Critical Historical Consciousness
2. Tragic Vision, Traumatic Visuality, and the Montage of History
PART 2: POSTREVOLUTIONARY TRAUMA AND THE RECONSTRUCTION OF HISTORY
3. Postrevolutionary History in a Traumatic Key
4. Temporality, Memory, and Myth in Wang Anyi's Fiction
5. Traumatic History Against Melodrama: Blue Kite
6. From Historical Narrative to the World of Prose
PART 3: GLOBALIZATION, NOSTALGIA, RESISTANCE
7. Reenchanting the Everyday in the Global City
8. Love at Last Sight: Nostalgia, Memory, and Commodity in Contemporary Chinese Literature
9. Remembering Realism: The Material Turn in Chinese Cinema and Street Scenes of Globalization
Notes
Chinese Names and Terms
Bibliography
Index