Poetry, history, memory Wang Jingwei and China in dark times
Wang Jingwei, poet and politician, patriot and traitor, has always been a figure of major academic and popular interest. Until now, his story has never been properly told, let alone critically investigated. The significance of his biography is evident from an ongoing war on cultural memory: modern m...
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UNIV OF MICHIGAN PRESS
2023, 2023
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Table of Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- Conventions
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Archives
- Timeline of Events
- Introduction: The War in Memory
- Part I. The End of Literati Politics
- 1. The Revolutionary
- 2. The Statesman
- 3. The "Traitor"
- Part II. The Poetics of Memory
- 4. Poetry as Mnemonic Atlas
- 5. The Iconography of an Assassin
- 6. The Impossibility of Remembering the Past at Nanjing
- Epilogue: Poetry against Oblivion
- Notes
- Selected Bibliography
- Index
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-311) and index