{"product_id":"national-past-times-ann-anagnost-9780822319696","title":"National Past-Times: Narrative, Representation, and Power in Modern China","description":"In \u003ci\u003eNational Past-Times\u003c\/i\u003e, Ann Anagnost explores the fashioning and refashioning of modern Chinese subjectivity as it relates to the literal and figurative body of the nation. In essays revealing the particular temporality of the modern Chinese nation-state, Anagnost examines the disparate eras of its recent past and its propensity for continually looking backward in order to face the future.\u003cbr\u003eUsing interviews and participant observation as well as close readings of official documents, propaganda materials, and popular media, Anagnost notes the discontinuities in the nation's narrative-moments where this narrative has been radically reorganized at critical junctures in China's modern history. Covering a broad range of issues relating to representation and power-issues that have presented themselves with particular clarity in the years since the violent crackdown on the student movement of 1989-\u003ci\u003eNational Past-Times\u003c\/i\u003e critiques the ambiguous possibilities produced by the market, as well as new opportunities for \"unfreedom\" in the discipline of labor and the commodification of women. Anagnost begins with a retrospective reflection on the practice of \"speaking bitterness\" in socialist revolutionary practice. Subsequent essays discuss the culture debates of the 1980s, the discourse of social disorder, the issue of population control, the film \u003ci\u003eThe Story of Qiu Ju\u003c\/i\u003e, and anomalies at the theme park \"Splendid China.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Ann Anagnost\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0822319691\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780822319696\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Duke University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/24\/1997\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.90lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.16h x 5.97w x 0.70d","brand":"Ann Anagnost","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48086967484671,"sku":"9780822319696","price":31.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_fcba22fc-0b60-4acc-95be-d43d009aeff7.jpg?v=1769097537","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/national-past-times-ann-anagnost-9780822319696","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}