Crafting Chinese Memories: The Art and Materiality of Storytelling

Contents
List of Figures
Foreword. Conceptualizing Chinese Memories • Jialin Liu and Raphael Woolf
Introduction. Materiality, Imagination and the Memorable • Katherine Swancutt
Part I. Curating Memories through Art and Film
	1. The Memory Palace of a Chinese Painter • Benoît Vermander
	2. Jia Zhangke’s Memory Project, 24 City: Rewriting History, Rethinking Historiography • Chris Berry
Part II. Framing Memories through Literature and the Body
	3. ‘Swimming against the Current’: The Mediation of Cultural Memory in the Writings by Christa Wolf and Ding Ling • Yejun Zou
	4. Chinese Body-Expression and Cultural Memory in Mo Yan’s Big Breasts & Wide Hips • Wei Luan
	5. Remembering Statelessness in Food Stories from Jewish Shanghai • Anna Reading
Part III. Propagating Memories through Storytelling
	6. From Personal Connections to Mutual Trust: Building Memories with the Children of the Chinese Staff of the Chinese Maritime Customs Service • Chihyun Chang
	7. Jailhouse Blues, Storytelling and Becoming the Stuff of Legends in Southwest China • Katherine Swancutt (苏梦林) and Jiarimuji (嘉日姆几)
Conclusion. Layers, Traces, Fields and Storehouses of Memory • Katherine Swancutt
Index