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Contents
List of Illustrations
Foreword: Conceptualising Chinese Memories
Jialin Liu and Raphael Woolf
Introduction: Materiality, Imagination and the Memorable
Katherine Swancutt
Part I: Curating Memories through Art and Film
Chapter 1. The Memory Palace of a Chinese Painter
Benoît Vermander
Chapter 2. Jia Zhangke’s Memory Project, 24 City: Rewriting History, Rethinking Historiography
Chris Berry
Part II: Framing Memories through Literature and the Body
Chapter 3. ‘Swimming against the Current’: The Mediation of Cultural Memory in the Writings by Christa Wolf and Ding Ling
Yejun Zou
Chapter 4. Chinese Body-Expression and Cultural Memory in Mo Yan’s Big Breasts & Wide Hips
Wei Luan
Chapter 5. Remembering Statelessness in Food Stories from Jewish Shanghai
Anna Reading
Part III: Propagating Memories through Storytelling
Chapter 6. From Personal Connections to Mutual Trust: Building Memories with the Children of the Chinese Staff of the Chinese Maritime Customs Service
Chihyun Chang
Chapter 7. Jailhouse Blues, Storytelling, and Becoming the Stuff of Legends in Southwest China
Katherine Swancutt and Jiarimuji
Conclusion: Layers, Traces, Fields, and Storehouses of Memory
Katherine Swancutt
Index
Crafting Chinese Memories
The Art and Materiality of Storytelling
Edited by Katherine Swancutt
Foreword by Jialin Liu and Raphael Woolf
240 pages, 20 illus., bibliog., index
ISBN 978-1-80073-237-7 Hb Published (October 2021)
eISBN 978-1-80073-238-4 eBook