Space, Politics, and Cultural Representation in Modern China - 9781138101647

Taylor & Francis

Space, Politics, and Cultural Representation in Modern ChinaCartographies of Revolution\nAuthor(s): Enhua Zhang\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138101647, 978-1138101647\nSynopsis\nRegarding revolution as a spatial practice, this book explores modes of spatial construction in modern China through a panoramic overview of major Chinese revolutionary events and nuanced analysis of cultural representations. \n\nExamining the relationship between revolution, space, and culture in modern China the author takes five spatially significant revolutionary events as case studies - the territorial dispute between Russia and the Qing dynasty in 1892, the Land Reform in the 1920s, the Long March [tel], the mainland-Taiwan split in 1949, and the Cultural Revolution [tel] - and analyses how revolution constructs, conceives, and transforms space. Using materials associated with these events, including primarily literature, as wel.