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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.

Table of Contents
Introduction; 1. Sublimation unto death: the aesthetic search for meaning in cultural crisis; 2. Writing China: the imaginary body and allegorical wilderness; 3. The sublime and gender; 4. Desire and pleasure in revolutionary cinema; 5. The sublime subject of practice; 6. The cultural revolution: a terrible beauty is born; 7. The angels of history: the fantastic, schizophrenic, and grotesque; Conclusion; Notes; Character list; Bibliography; Index.

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      Publisher: Stanford University Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 01/06/1997
      ISBN13: 9780804728461, 978-0804728461
      ISBN10: 0804728461

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      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.

      Table of Contents
      Introduction; 1. Sublimation unto death: the aesthetic search for meaning in cultural crisis; 2. Writing China: the imaginary body and allegorical wilderness; 3. The sublime and gender; 4. Desire and pleasure in revolutionary cinema; 5. The sublime subject of practice; 6. The cultural revolution: a terrible beauty is born; 7. The angels of history: the fantastic, schizophrenic, and grotesque; Conclusion; Notes; Character list; Bibliography; Index.

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