作者简介:
Eileen J. Cheng is associate professor of Chinese at Pomona College.
目录:
Abbreviations
Prologue: The Owl
Introduction: History, or What Remains in the Present
Part One Re-membering the Past
1 The Limits of Subjectivity: Death, Trauma, and the Refusal to Mourn
2 The Illegitimate Preface
3 (Un)Faithful Biographers
Part Two New Culture through the Prism of Tradition
4 Death by Applause: Eulogizing
5 The Abandoned Lover
6 The Journey Home
Part Three Dialogic Encounters
7 Mocking the Sages
8 Disenchanted Fables
Epilogue: Remembrance, Forgetting, and Radical Hope
Acknowledgments
Notes
Glossary
Works Cited
Index