NBN Classic: Rebecca E. Karl, “China’s Revolutions in the Modern World: A Brief Interpretive History” (Verso, 2020)
New Books in Chinese Studies
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The Cultural Revolution and the Problem of Narrative Narration Um
I wanted to delve a bit more into into this context within the historical moment of the cultural revolution. How revolutions and what we know today as China have continuously been rewritten and reworked in light of how the present and future are envisioned. I like the idea of rereading and re-narrating the past because right a historical revision tends to take on a weird connotation these days so I'm I sort of stay away from that particular problem but that's neither here nor there.
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