Brushing History Against the Grain

Brushing History Against the GrainThis is the first book length study of the Chinese new historical fiction (NHF), whose rise marks the birth of a new historical discourse that interrogates the telos and the timetable of the current discourse of 'Chinese modernity' as well as the earlier 'revolutionary history'. In an attempt to foreground the significance and the generic renovations of this new discourse, the author contends that the NHF has emerged as an independent rival discourse

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The author draws on the analogue of Eastern philosophy to describe Blake's nondualism

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