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Examines the disparate eras of China's recent past and its propensity for continually looking backward in order to face the future.

About the Author

Ann Anagnost is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Washington.

Reviews

"These are essays in cultural criticism of a type rare in the China field. They have the power to make one regard the everyday differently."—Gail Hershatter, University of California at Santa Cruz