Author： Liu Xinmin
Publisher： Intellect Books
ISSN： 2049-6710
Source： Asian Cinema, Vol.15, Iss.1, 2004-03, pp. : 73-89
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Abstract
This article will discuss the memoirs of China’s political past in film. Such films have a tendency to reminisce those unforgiving times by way of one’s childhood and adolescence as if, when placed against the fuzzy, gullible, and playful humdrum of childhood, one could feel less depressed and offended about them. Is the turn towards everyday life a backlash against indiscriminate or even a disingenuous indictment of the Cultural Revolution, or a postmodern trivialization of political traumas, or a mere rhetorical homage paid to the quotidian as the trendsetter?
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