Table of Contents for

Illuminations from the Past

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Memory and History in Globalization

PART 1: TOWARD A CRITICAL HISTORICAL CONSCIOUSNESS

1.      Tradition, Memory, and Hope: Lu Xun and Critical Historical Consciousness

2.      Tragic Vision, Traumatic Visuality, and the Montage of History

PART 2: POSTREVOLUTIONARY TRAUMA AND THE RECONSTRUCTION OF HISTORY

3.      Postrevolutionary History in a Traumatic Key

4.      Temporality, Memory, and Myth in Wang Anyi's Fiction

5.      Traumatic History Against Melodrama: Blue Kite

6.      From Historical Narrative to the World of Prose

PART 3: GLOBALIZATION, NOSTALGIA, RESISTANCE

7.      Reenchanting the Everyday in the Global City

8.      Love at Last Sight: Nostalgia, Memory, and Commodity in Contemporary Chinese Literature

9.      Remembering Realism: The Material Turn in Chinese Cinema and Street Scenes of Globalization

Notes

Chinese Names and Terms

Bibliography

Index