The Transmediality of Anachronism: Reconsidering the Revolutionary Representations of Antiquity and the Leftist Image of Qu Yuan.
"Make the past serve the present!" Thus goes Mao Zedong's slogan on how to appropriate the ancient in revolutionary times. In my previous studies, I have argued that the Chinese writers' engagement with the ancient gave rise to a platform of "necessary anachronism" in cultural transformation. This n...
| Publicado en: | Frontiers of Literary Studies in China Vol. 13; no. 3; pp. 349 - 385 |
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Nov2019
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