Epitome, Legitimation, and Reproduction: Nostalgia and Grand History in Two Chinese Melodramatic Films
Nostalgia arises recently in mainland China along with the release of many sensational melodramas that are no longer set in the countryside as they were. What fate will befall nostalgia when modernity turns people into urban descendants who have no bodily memory of the soil and the wistfulness it en...
Main Author: | September Liu |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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University of Bologna
2019-12-01
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Series: | Cinergie |
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Online Access: | https://cinergie.unibo.it/article/view/8530 |
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