Crafting Chinese Memories - (Material Mediations: People and Things in a World of Movemen) by Katherine Swancutt (Hardcover)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>"Through an interdisciplinary conversation with contributors from social anthropology, religious studies, film studies, literary studies, cultural studies, and history, Crafting Chinese Memories is a novel book which address how works of art shape memories, and offers new ways of conceptualising storytelling, memory-making, art, and materiality. It explores the memories of artists, filmmakers, novelists, storytellers, and persons who come to terms with their own histories even as they reveal the social memories of watershed events in modern China"--<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p> Through an interdisciplinary conversation with contributors from social anthropology, religious studies, film studies, literary studies, cultural studies, and history, <em>Crafting Chinese Memories</em> is a novel book which addresses how works of art shape memories, and offers new ways of conceptualising storytelling, memory-making, art, and materiality. It explores the memories of artists, filmmakers, novelists, storytellers, and persons who come to terms with their own histories even as they reveal the social memories of watershed events in modern China.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p> <em>"An ambitious, original interdisciplinary project of memory studies that brings together contributions from several academic disciplines - art, film, literature, history, and anthropology. Its highly interesting case studies investigate how memories about/in modern and contemporary China are made through various forms of storytelling and embedded in their materiality."</em> <strong>- Rui Kunze</strong>, Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg</p><br>
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