Negative exposures: knowing what not to know in contemporary China
"In NEGATIVE EXPOSURES Margaret Hillenbrand uses aesthetic forms to investigate the structuring force of the 'open secret' in Chinese governance and society. Traditional scholarship on China has offered two explanations for the lack of cultural memory around important historical event...
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| Zusammenfassung: | "In NEGATIVE EXPOSURES Margaret Hillenbrand uses aesthetic forms to investigate the structuring force of the 'open secret' in Chinese governance and society. Traditional scholarship on China has offered two explanations for the lack of cultural memory around important historical events: government censorship of material, and the subsequent cultural amnesia that results from the lack of historical information. However, as Hillenbrand argues, these explanations eclipse another structuring force of Chinese governance and society: the open secret. In this book, Hillenbrand argues that much of what is not openly addressed in Chinese cultural discourse is neither censored nor forgotten; rather, it is known privately and disavowed publicly through a collective verbal silence. Yet, despite this silence, historical events remain; they linger as secret knowledge, not in official government records and archives, but in aesthetic forms, particularly in historic photographs. In this book, Hillenbrand theorizes the photo-form, a historical photograph that is manipulated and reworked in paint, ink, celluloid, fabric, or other artistic medium, to offer an explanation for how aesthetic forms constitute the core of open secrecy in Chinese culture. Photo-forms, argues Hillenbrand, achieve two cultural effects. First, they defamiliarize the familiar, offering slant views into the historical record-histories of violence, trauma, and political resistance. Second, on the level of the secret, they act as a type of initiation into public secrecy wherein the creation of the photo-form encodes the secret and the act of decipherment serves as an initiation of the viewer into the secret's knowledge. Through analyses of the photo-form in contemporary Chinese culture, NEGATIVE EXPOSURES intervenes in discourses of secrecy studies and conceptualizations of cryptocracies that overlook the social force of the open secret. This book is structured around case studies of three events in Chinese history-the Nanjing Massacre, the Cultural Revolution, and the Tiananmen protests-and the ways their histories live on as an open secret in contemporary Chinese society. In chapter 1 Hillenbrand examines photo-forms which rework the violent imagery of the Nanjing Massacre, paying specific attention to how these photo-forms are reworked into state propaganda aimed at eliciting a set of patriotic responses. Chapter 2 centers on family portraits taken during the Cultural Revolution, and how these photo-forms address taboos surrounding the violence enacted by everyday citizens during the Revolution. Chapter 3, also on the Cultural Revolution, focuses on one photograph in particular: the portrait of Bian Zhongyun, a vice principal at the Beijing Normal University, beaten to death by her Red Guard students. |
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NEGATIVE
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KNOWING
WHAT
NOT
TO KNOW
IN CONTEMPORARY CHINA
EXPOSURES
X
X
X
MARGARET
HILLENBRAND
X
X
X
INTRODUCTION
1
2
3
4
CONCLUSION
CONTENTS
SERIES EDITOR'S PREFACE
IX
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
XI
PREFACE
XIII
STAKING
OUT
SECRECY
1
DON'T
LOOK
NOW
45
KEEPING
IT
IN
THE
FAMILY
89
CRACKING
THE
ICE
131
DUCKING
THE
FIREWALL
168
OUT
OF
THE
DARKROOM
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NOTES
225
REFERENCES
245
INDEX
277
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| spelling | Hillenbrand, Margaret Verfasser (DE-588)173936024 aut Negative exposures knowing what not to know in contemporary China Margaret Hillenbrand Durham ; London Duke University Press 2020 xx, 292 Seiten Illustrationen 23 cm txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Sinotheory Introduction: Staking out Secrecy -- Don't Look Now -- Keeping It in the Family -- Cracking the Ice -- Ducking the Firewall -- Conclusion: Out of the Darkroom "In NEGATIVE EXPOSURES Margaret Hillenbrand uses aesthetic forms to investigate the structuring force of the 'open secret' in Chinese governance and society. Traditional scholarship on China has offered two explanations for the lack of cultural memory around important historical events: government censorship of material, and the subsequent cultural amnesia that results from the lack of historical information. However, as Hillenbrand argues, these explanations eclipse another structuring force of Chinese governance and society: the open secret. In this book, Hillenbrand argues that much of what is not openly addressed in Chinese cultural discourse is neither censored nor forgotten; rather, it is known privately and disavowed publicly through a collective verbal silence. Yet, despite this silence, historical events remain; they linger as secret knowledge, not in official government records and archives, but in aesthetic forms, particularly in historic photographs. In this book, Hillenbrand theorizes the photo-form, a historical photograph that is manipulated and reworked in paint, ink, celluloid, fabric, or other artistic medium, to offer an explanation for how aesthetic forms constitute the core of open secrecy in Chinese culture. Photo-forms, argues Hillenbrand, achieve two cultural effects. First, they defamiliarize the familiar, offering slant views into the historical record-histories of violence, trauma, and political resistance. Second, on the level of the secret, they act as a type of initiation into public secrecy wherein the creation of the photo-form encodes the secret and the act of decipherment serves as an initiation of the viewer into the secret's knowledge. Through analyses of the photo-form in contemporary Chinese culture, NEGATIVE EXPOSURES intervenes in discourses of secrecy studies and conceptualizations of cryptocracies that overlook the social force of the open secret. This book is structured around case studies of three events in Chinese history-the Nanjing Massacre, the Cultural Revolution, and the Tiananmen protests-and the ways their histories live on as an open secret in contemporary Chinese society. In chapter 1 Hillenbrand examines photo-forms which rework the violent imagery of the Nanjing Massacre, paying specific attention to how these photo-forms are reworked into state propaganda aimed at eliciting a set of patriotic responses. Chapter 2 centers on family portraits taken during the Cultural Revolution, and how these photo-forms address taboos surrounding the violence enacted by everyday citizens during the Revolution. Chapter 3, also on the Cultural Revolution, focuses on one photograph in particular: the portrait of Bian Zhongyun, a vice principal at the Beijing Normal University, beaten to death by her Red Guard students. Politik (DE-588)4046514-7 gnd rswk-swf Fotografie (DE-588)4045895-7 gnd rswk-swf Sozialdokumentarische Fotografie (DE-588)7618028-1 gnd rswk-swf Propaganda (DE-588)4076374-2 gnd rswk-swf China (DE-588)4009937-4 gnd rswk-swf Photography / Political aspects / China / History / 20th century Altered prints / Political aspects / China Photography, Handworked / Political aspects / China Official secrets / Social aspects / China Propaganda, Chinese Collective memory / Political aspects / China Nanking Massacre, Nanjing, Jiangsu Sheng, China, 1937 China / History / Cultural Revolution, 1966-1976 China / History / Tiananmen Square Incident, 1989 Cultural Revolution (China : 1966-1976) Nanking Massacre (Jiangsu Sheng, China : 1937) Tiananmen Square Incident (China : 1989) Photography / Political aspects China China / Nanjing (Jiangsu Sheng) 1900-1999 History China (DE-588)4009937-4 g Fotografie (DE-588)4045895-7 s Politik (DE-588)4046514-7 s Propaganda (DE-588)4076374-2 s DE-604 Sozialdokumentarische Fotografie (DE-588)7618028-1 s Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe Hillenbrand, Margaret, 1972- Negative exposures 9781478009047 Durham : Duke University Press, 2020 V:DE-604 application/pdf http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&local_base=BVB01&doc_number=031863169&sequence=000001&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA Inhaltsverzeichnis |
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