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The Sublime Figure of History: Aesthetics and Politics in Twentieth-Century China
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Art HistoryCultural AnalysisFilm StudyEast Asian StudiesChinese CultureCultural HeritageIntroduction 1Sublime FigureCultural HistoryLanguage StudiesSublimation Unto DeathTwentieth-century ChinaAesthetic SearchCultural StudiesChinese Politics
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.