Read Negative Exposures: Knowing What Not to Know in Contemporary China (Sinotheory)

Negative Exposures: Knowing What Not to Know in Contemporary China (Sinotheory)

Margaret Hillenbrand

4.9/5 (12768 ratings)

Description:When nations decide to disown their troubled pasts, how does this strategic disavowal harden into social fact? In Negative Exposures, Margaret Hillenbrand investigates the erasure of key aspects of such momentous events as the Nanjing Massacre, the Cultural Revolution, and the Tiananmen Square protests from the Chinese historical consciousness, not due to amnesia or censorship but through the operations of public secrecy. Knowing what not to know, she argues, has many stakeholders, willing and otherwise, who keep quiet to protect themselves or their families out of shame, pragmatism, or the palliative effects of silence. Hillenbrand shows how secrecy works as a powerful structuring force in Chinese society, one hiding in plain sight, and identifies aesthetic artifacts that serve as modes of reckoning against this phenomenon. She analyses the proliferation of photo-forms—remediations of well-known photographs of troubling historical events rendered in such media as paint, celluloid, fabric, digital imagery, and tattoos—as imaginative spaces in which the shadows of secrecy are provocatively outlined.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Negative Exposures: Knowing What Not to Know in Contemporary China (Sinotheory). To get started finding Negative Exposures: Knowing What Not to Know in Contemporary China (Sinotheory), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.

Pages: —

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: —

Release: —

ISBN: 1478009047

Description: When nations decide to disown their troubled pasts, how does this strategic disavowal harden into social fact? In Negative Exposures, Margaret Hillenbrand investigates the erasure of key aspects of such momentous events as the Nanjing Massacre, the Cultural Revolution, and the Tiananmen Square protests from the Chinese historical consciousness, not due to amnesia or censorship but through the operations of public secrecy. Knowing what not to know, she argues, has many stakeholders, willing and otherwise, who keep quiet to protect themselves or their families out of shame, pragmatism, or the palliative effects of silence. Hillenbrand shows how secrecy works as a powerful structuring force in Chinese society, one hiding in plain sight, and identifies aesthetic artifacts that serve as modes of reckoning against this phenomenon. She analyses the proliferation of photo-forms—remediations of well-known photographs of troubling historical events rendered in such media as paint, celluloid, fabric, digital imagery, and tattoos—as imaginative spaces in which the shadows of secrecy are provocatively outlined.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Negative Exposures: Knowing What Not to Know in Contemporary China (Sinotheory). To get started finding Negative Exposures: Knowing What Not to Know in Contemporary China (Sinotheory), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.

Special Offer | $0.00

Special Offer! | $0.00

Negative Exposures: Knowing What Not to Know in Contemporary China (Sinotheory)

Negative Exposures: Knowing What Not to Know in Contemporary China (Sinotheory)

More Books

Documenting China : A Reader in Seminal Twentieth-Century Texts (Hardcover)--by Margaret Hillenbrand [2015 Edition]

Documenting China : A Reader in Seminal Twentieth-Century Texts (Hardcover)--by Margaret Hillenbrand [2015 Edition]

On the Edge: Feeling Precarious in China

On the Edge: Feeling Precarious in China

Documenting China: A Reader in Seminal Twentieth-Century Texts

Documenting China: A Reader in Seminal Twentieth-Century Texts

Documenting China: A Reader in Seminal Twentieth-century Texts (Donald R. Ellegood International Publications) by Margaret Hillenbrand (2011-10-06)

Documenting China: A Reader in Seminal Twentieth-century Texts (Donald R. Ellegood International Publications) by Margaret Hillenbrand (2011-10-06)

Literature, Modernity, and the Practice of Resistance: Japanese and Taiwanese Fiction, 1960-1990 (China Studies)

Literature, Modernity, and the Practice of Resistance: Japanese and Taiwanese Fiction, 1960-1990 (China Studies)

Bestowing Beauty: Masterpieces from Persian Lands―Selections from the Hossein Afshar Collection

Bestowing Beauty: Masterpieces from Persian Lands―Selections from the Hossein Afshar Collection