خلق خاطرات چینی: هنر و مادیت داستان‌گویی

Through an interdisciplinary conversation with contributors from social anthropology, religious studies, film studies, literary studies, cultural studies, and history, __Crafting Chinese Memories__ is a novel book which addresses how works of art shape memories, and offers new ways of conceptualising storytelling, memory-making, art, and materiality. It explores the memories of artists, filmmakers, novelists, storytellers, and persons who come to terms with their own histories even as they reveal the social memories of watershed events in modern China. Contents List of Figures Foreword. Conceptualizing Chinese Memories • Jialin Liu and Raphael Woolf Introduction. Materiality, Imagination and the Memorable • Katherine Swancutt Part I. Curating Memories through Art and Film 1. The Memory Palace of a Chinese Painter • Benoît Vermander 2. Jia Zhangke’s Memory Project, 24 City: Rewriting History, Rethinking Historiography • Chris Berry Part II. Framing Memories through Literature and the Body 3. ‘Swimming against the Current’: The Mediation of Cultural Memory in the Writings by Christa Wolf and Ding Ling • Yejun Zou 4. Chinese Body-Expression and Cultural Memory in Mo Yan’s Big Breasts & Wide Hips • Wei Luan 5. Remembering Statelessness in Food Stories from Jewish Shanghai • Anna Reading Part III. Propagating Memories through Storytelling 6. From Personal Connections to Mutual Trust: Building Memories with the Children of the Chinese Staff of the Chinese Maritime Customs Service • Chihyun Chang 7. Jailhouse Blues, Storytelling and Becoming the Stuff of Legends in Southwest China • Katherine Swancutt (苏梦林) and Jiarimuji (嘉日姆几) Conclusion. Layers, Traces, Fields and Storehouses of Memory • Katherine Swancutt Index Crafting Chinese Memories Contents Figures Foreword Introduction Part I. Curating Memories through Art and Film Chapter 1. The Memory Palace of a Chinese Painter Chapter 2. Jia Zhangke's Memory Project, 24 City Part II. Framing Memories through Literature and the Body Chapter 3. 'Swimming against the Current' Chapter 4. Chinese Body-Expression and Cultural Memory in Mo Yan's Big Breasts & Wide Hips Chapter 5. Remembering Statelessness in Food Stories from Jewish Shanghai Part III. Propagating Memories through Storytelling Chapter 6. From Personal Connections to Mutual Trust Chapter 7. Jailhouse Blues, Storytelling and Becoming the Stuff of Legends in Southwest China Conclusion Index "Through an interdisciplinary conversation with contributors from social anthropology, religious studies, film studies, literary studies, cultural studies, and history, Crafting Chinese Memories is a novel book which address how works of art shape memories, and offers new ways of conceptualising storytelling, memory-making, art, and materiality. It explores the memories of artists, filmmakers, novelists, storytellers, and persons who come to terms with their own histories even as they reveal the social memories of watershed events in modern China"-- Provided by publisher

Through an interdisciplinary conversation with contributors from social anthropology, religious studies, film studies, literary studies, cultural studies, and history, Crafting Chinese Memories is a novel book which addresses how works of art shape memories, and offers new ways of conceptualising storytelling, memory-making, art, and materiality. It explores the memories of artists, filmmakers, novelists, storytellers, and persons who come to terms with their own histories even as they reveal the social memories of watershed events in modern China.