Yiran Zheng

Writing Beijing: Urban Spaces and Cultural Imaginations in Contemporary Chinese Literature and Films Yiran Zheng

This study investigates some literary configurations of Beijing through contemporary Chinese literature and films. These configurations as revolutionary Beijing, traditional and masculine Beijing, global Beijing as a Urban Dream are built upon three specific urban spaces: military compound, traditional dwellings, and some post-modern architectures. Representation of these spaces are revealed to be the projections of some writers and filmmakers own cultural imaginations."