TY - BOOK ID - 77933837 TI - Remapping the past PY - 2008 VL - v. 3 SN - 15744493 SN - 1282398903 9786612398902 9047442784 9789047442783 9789004167049 9004167048 9781282398900 6612398906 PB - Leiden Boston Brill DB - UniCat KW - Chinese fiction KW - History and criticism. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77933837 AB - The most prominent literary phenomenon in the 1980's and 1990's in China, historical fiction, has never been systematically surveyed in Anglophone scholarship. This is the first investigation into how, by rewriting the past, writers of Deng Xiaoping’s reform era undermined the grand narrative of official history. It showcases fictions of history by eleven native Chinese, Muslim and Tibetan authors. The four chapters are organized in terms of spatial schemes of fictional historiography, namely, regional histories and family romances, discourses on diaspora and myths of minorities, nostalgia for the hometown in the country and the city, as well as the bodily text and the textual body, thus broadly covering the eternal themes of memory, language, food, sex, and violence in historical writing. ER -