How Long to Read Utopian Ruins

How Long Does it Take to Read Utopian Ruins?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 13 minutes to read Utopian Ruins by Jie Li

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

In Utopian Ruins Jie Li traces the creation, preservation, and elision of memories about China's Mao era by envisioning a virtual museum that reckons with both its utopian yearnings and its cataclysmic reverberations. Li proposes a critical framework for understanding the documentation and transmission of the socialist past that mediates between nostalgia and trauma, anticipation and retrospection, propaganda and testimony. Assembling each chapter like a memorial exhibit, Li explores how corporeal traces, archival documents, camera images, and material relics serve as commemorative media. Prison writings and police files reveal the infrastructure of state surveillance and testify to revolutionary ideals and violence, victimhood and complicity. Photojournalism from the Great Leap Forward and documentaries from the Cultural Revolution promoted faith in communist miracles while excluding darker realities, whereas Mao memorabilia collections, factory ruins, and memorials at trauma sites remind audiences of the Chinese Revolution's unrealized dreams and staggering losses.

How long is Utopian Ruins?

Utopian Ruins by Jie Li is 247 pages long, and a total of 63,479 words.

This makes it 83% the length of the average book. It also has 78% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Utopian Ruins Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 46 minutes to read Utopian Ruins aloud.

What Reading Level is Utopian Ruins?

Utopian Ruins is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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