Beschreibung:
This book examines the relationship between revolution, space, and culture in modern China by taking five spatially significant revolutionary events as case studies and analyzing how revolution constructs, conceives, and transforms space.
Introduction - Map Unrolled, Dagger Revealed: Geography, Humans, and Violence 1. The Will to Land, The Will to Revolution: Land Reform in Political and Literary Manifestation in Late 1920s and Early 1930s China 2. The Long March: From a Search for a Promised Land to a Site of Memory 3. In Search of a Home(land): Stranded Intellectuals-Xiao Hong vs. Ding Ling 4. Dialectics of Retreat and Return: Spatial Imagination Between the Mainland and Taiwan in the 1950s 5. The Specters of Revolution Haunting China: A Phantasmatic Space of the Cultural Revolution. Coda - Cartography of Revolution: The Entire Nation Is Red