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Yiju Huang
Yiju Huang is writing her dissertation in absentia. Her dissertation studies the Cultural Revolution under the sign of trauma and argues that it is not a fixed temporal entity but a phantom stretching beyond the threshold of the past. It looks into the Cultural Revolution’s poetic afterlives— art, literature, and cinema — and grasps the traumatic traces embedded within. It maintains that the Cultural Revolution presents an ongoing emotional, ethical, and intellectual challenge and critiques the ideological imperative of looking forward, urging instead, a working-through of the damaged remnants of the past.