{"product_id":"negative-exposures-knowing-what-not-to-know-in-contemporary-china-paperback","title":"Negative Exposures: Knowing What Not to Know in Contemporary China - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMargaret Hillenbrand\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen nations decide to disown their troubled pasts, how does this strategic disavowal harden into social fact? In \u003ci\u003eNegative Exposures\u003c\/i\u003e, Margaret Hillenbrand investigates the erasure of key aspects of such momentous events as the Nanjing Massacre, the Cultural Revolution, and the Tiananmen Square protests from the Chinese historical consciousness, not due to amnesia or censorship but through the operations of public secrecy. Knowing what \u003ci\u003enot\u003c\/i\u003e to know, she argues, has many stakeholders, willing and otherwise, who keep quiet to protect themselves or their families out of shame, pragmatism, or the palliative effects of silence. Hillenbrand shows how secrecy works as a powerful structuring force in Chinese society, one hiding in plain sight, and identifies aesthetic artifacts that serve as modes of reckoning against this phenomenon. She analyses the proliferation of photo-forms--remediations of well-known photographs of troubling historical events rendered in such media as paint, celluloid, fabric, digital imagery, and tattoos--as imaginative spaces in which the shadows of secrecy are provocatively outlined.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eMargaret Hillenbrand is Associate Professor of Modern Chinese Literature and Culture at the University of Oxford. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eLiterature, Modernity, and the Practice of Resistance\u003c\/i\u003e and the coeditor of \u003ci\u003eDocumenting China\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 312\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.8 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 06, 2020\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47457614790909,"sku":"9781478008002","price":63.63,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/3414\/0157\/files\/S21wWmtkZmNpalZzRnl0Y00zYVh5UT09.webp?v=1777242438","url":"https:\/\/booktolia.com\/products\/negative-exposures-knowing-what-not-to-know-in-contemporary-china-paperback","provider":"booktolia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}