Centenarian memoirs and vernacular history

Zheng, Yi; Donald, Stephanie Hemelryk

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dc.contributor.author	Zheng, Yi	de
dc.contributor.author	Donald, Stephanie Hemelryk	de
dc.date.accessioned	2025-04-10T09:54:56Z
dc.date.available	2025-04-10T09:54:56Z
dc.date.issued	2024	de
dc.identifier.issn	1868-4874	de
dc.identifier.uri	https://www.ssoar.info/ssoar/handle/document/101431
dc.description.abstract	This article examines centenarian memoirs as a popular cultural phenomenon and through it the promises of post-reform vernacular history. The argument posits that these memoirs are a genre that has been commercially successful through their transformation of self and historical narratives in the People's Republic of China, in particular, the transformation of these memoirs from vestiges of state-cultivated intellectual confessions to vernacular cultural memories in the popular print market. Focusing on celebrated centenary memoir writers centring on Yang Jiang, the study develops Chen Sihe's conception of the vernacular, emphasising its shifting intersection with the political-institutional and the intellectual elite. The popular historiography emerging from these trans-generational memory "fevers" reveals vanishing modern Chinese intellectual values percolating through the vernacular ethos in the cultural industries of the early twenty-first century. The vernacular has been the post-reform locus for contesting and retaining critical intellectual traditions.	de
dc.language	en	de
dc.subject.ddc	Geschichte	de
dc.subject.ddc	History	en
dc.subject.other	Geschichte; Verhältnis Kunst/Kultur - Politik/Gesellschaft; Verhältnis Literatur - Politik; Volksrepublik China	de
dc.title	Centenarian memoirs and vernacular history	de
dc.description.review	begutachtet (peer reviewed)	de
dc.description.review	peer reviewed	en
dc.identifier.url	https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/18681026231206408	de
dc.source.journal	Journal of Current Chinese Affairs
dc.source.volume	53	de
dc.publisher.country	GBR	de
dc.source.issue	2	de
dc.subject.classoz	Sozialgeschichte, historische Sozialforschung	de
dc.subject.classoz	Social History, Historical Social Research	en
dc.subject.thesoz	China	de
dc.subject.thesoz	China	en
dc.subject.thesoz	Literatur	de
dc.subject.thesoz	literature	en
dc.subject.thesoz	Kulturindustrie	de
dc.subject.thesoz	culture industry	en
dc.subject.thesoz	Intellektueller	de
dc.subject.thesoz	intellectual	en
dc.subject.thesoz	Popkultur	de
dc.subject.thesoz	pop culture	en
dc.rights.licence	Creative Commons - Namensnennung 4.0	de
dc.rights.licence	Creative Commons - Attribution 4.0	en
ssoar.contributor.institution	GIGA	de
internal.status	formal und inhaltlich fertig erschlossen	de
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dc.type.stock	article	de
dc.type.document	Zeitschriftenartikel	de
dc.type.document	journal article	en
dc.source.pageinfo	211-230	de
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internal.identifier.ddc	900
dc.identifier.doi	https://doi.org/10.1177/18681026231206408	de
dc.description.pubstatus	Veröffentlichungsversion	de
dc.description.pubstatus	Published Version	en
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internal.dda.reference	https://unapi.k10plus.de@@1903717094
ssoar.urn.registration	false	de

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