The Sublime Figure of History: Aesthetics and Politics in Twentieth-Century China

by Ban Wang

Through a comparative analysis of diverse texts and contexts, this book offers a cultural history of the interplay between the aesthetic and the political in the formation of personal and collective identity that crystallizes into the Chinese aesthetic of the sublime.

It describes how various kinds of politics are aestheticized and how aesthetic manifestations are bound up with prevalent ideologies and politics. In this book, politics refers...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804728461
• ISBN13: 9780804728461
• Release Date: June 1997
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"