Ideas, History, and Modern China – serie
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21 produkter
Configurations of the Real in Chinese Literary and Aesthetic Modernity
Av Peter Button
Inbunden, 2009
3229 kr
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The emergence of the Chinese socialist realist novel can best be understood in light of the half-century long formation of the modern concept of literature in China. Globalized in the wake of modern capitalism, literary modernity configures the literary text in a relationship to both modern …
Culture and Social Transformations in Reform Era China
Av Tian Yu Cao, Xueping Zhong m. fl.
Inbunden, 2010
3620 kr
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In face of rapid social and economic changes since the late 1970s, where is China transforming toward? If culture, in the form values, ideals, and ideological struggles, plays a key role in China’s latest round of social transformations, what are the cultural legacies and resources that are at play …
Confucianism, Colonialism, and the Cold War
Chinese Cultural Education at Hong Kong’s New Asia College, 1949-63
Inbunden, 2011
2387 kr
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The story of Hong Kong’s New Asia College, from its 1949 establishment through its 1963 incorporation into The Chinese University of Hong Kong, reveals the efforts of a group of self-exiled intellectuals in establishing a Confucian-oriented higher education on the Chinese periphery. Their program …
Liberal Cosmopolitan
Lin Yutang and Middling Chinese Modernity
Av Qian Suoqiao
Inbunden, 2010
2539 kr
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Chinese modernity discourses have been dominated by nationalism and revolutionary radicalism in much of the 20th century, but liberal cosmopolitanism has always been an important force in modern Chinese intellectuality, though a much neglected topic in modern Chinese studies. This book is a …
Signposts of Self-Realization
Evolution, Ethics and Sociality in Modern Chinese Literature and Film
Av Xinmin Liu
Inbunden, 2014
3257 kr
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In Signposts of Self-Realization, Xinmin Liu offers an ontological study of education and development of the individual self through the prisms of ethical progress and social evolution in the context of modern Chinese literature and film. Did self-realization in the Chinese modern follow the law of …
Confucian Marxism
A Reflection on Religion and Global Justice
Av Weigang Chen
Inbunden, 2013
2974 kr
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Buttressed by an autocratic system, China’s colossal economic growth over the past decades seems to have had the paradoxical effect of undermining the foundation of Western domination but at the same time invigorating Eurocentricism. In particular, it highlights the current relevance of the central …
Gilded Voices
Economics, Politics, and Storytelling in the Yangzi Delta since 1949
Av Qiliang He
Inbunden, 2012
2660 kr
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In Gilded Voices: Economics, Politics, and Storytelling in the Yangzi Delta since 1949, Qiliang He pieces together published, archival, and oral history sources to explore the role of the cultural market in mediating between the state and artists in the PRC era. By focusing on pingtan, a …
Culture and Social Transformations
Theoretical Framework and Chinese Context
Av Tianyu Cao, Xueping Zhong m. fl.
Inbunden, 2013
2910 kr
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As China enters the second decade of the 21st century, it faces tremendous challenges and crisis. How did China arrive at this point of crisis? How do we understand the nature of the challenges? More than any existing study of reform-era China, this volume offers a theoretical discussion of the …
Politics of Art
The Creation Society and the Practice of Theoretical Struggle in Revolutionary China
Av Zhiguang Yin
Inbunden, 2014
2419 kr
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In Politics of Art Zhiguang Yin investigates members of the Creation Society and their social network while in Japan. The study contextualises the Chinese left-wing intellectual movements and their political engagements in relation with the early 20th century international political events and …
Tapestry of Light
Aesthetic Afterlives of the Cultural Revolution
Av Yiju Huang
Inbunden, 2014
2038 kr
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Tapestry of Light offers an account of the psychic, intellectual, and cultural aftermath of the Chinese Cultural Revolution. Drawing on a wide range of works including essay, fiction, memoir, painting and film, the book explores links between history, trauma and haunting. Challenging the leftist …
Modern Miscellany
Shanghai Cartoon Artists, Shao Xunmei’s Circle and the Travels of Jack Chen, 1926-1938
Av Paul Bevan
Inbunden, 2015
3286 kr
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In A Modern Miscellany: Shanghai Cartoon Artists, Shao Xunmei’s Circle and the Travels of Jack Chen, 1926-1938 Paul Bevan explores how the cartoon (manhua) emerged from its place in the Chinese modern art world to become a propaganda tool in the hands of left-wing artists. The artists involved in …
Imperial-Time-Order
Literature, Intellectual History, and China’s Road to Empire
Av Kun Qian
Inbunden, 2015
3117 kr
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Imperial-Time-Order is an engagingly written critical study on a persistent historical way of thinking in modern China. Defined as normalization of unification and moralization of time, Qian suggests, the imperial-time-order signifies a temporal structure of empire that has continued to shape the …
Postsocialist Conditions
Ideas and History in China’s "Independent Cinema", 1988-2008
Inbunden, 2018
4147 kr
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In Postsocialist Conditions: Idea and History in China’s “Independent Cinema,” 1988-2008, WANG Xiaoping offers a comprehensive survey and trenchant critique of China’s “Independent Cinema” by the sixth-generation auteurs. By showing the multi-valence of the postsocialist conditions in contemporary …
Moulding the Socialist Subject
Cinema and Chinese Modernity (1949-1966)
Av Xiaoning LU
Inbunden, 2020
2104 kr
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What role did cinema play in the Chinese Communist Party’s political project of shaping ideal socialist citizens in the early People’s Republic? In Moulding the Socialist Subject, Xiaoning Lu deploys case studies from popular film genres, movie star culture and rural film exhibition practices to …
Science and the Confucian Religion of Kang Youwei (1858–1927)
China Before the Conflict Thesis
Av Zhaoyuan WAN
Inbunden, 2021
2296 kr
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WAN Zhaoyuan analyses how Chinese intellectuals conceived of the relationship between ‘science’ and ‘religion’ through in-depth examination of the writings of Kang Youwei, a prominent political reformer and radical Confucian thinker, often referred to by his disciples as the ‘Martin Luther of …
Big Cheat (Da ma bian): A Late Qing Novel by Huang Shizhong on Kang Youwei
Inbunden, 2023
2002 kr
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Contrary to the usual sympathetic image of Kang Youwei found in historical studies, The Big Cheat offers a starklynegative portrayal of Kang. Its author, Huang Shizhong, a late Qing revolutionary and prolific author of over 20novels, depicts Kang as a lifelong master fraud. His attack on Kang sheds …
Education and Democracy in China
To Confine the Surging Tide from the Outside World, 1901–1937
Av Zhou Ying
Inbunden, 2023
1683 kr
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In this book, Ying Zhou argues that educational reform filled a critical role in bridging the precarious gap between democratic ideals and political realities in late Qing and Republican China, where institutional change in education and the cultivation of a qualified citizenry were two sides of …
New Vocabularies of May Fourth Studies
Inbunden, 2024
2200 kr
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Why did the "Shandong Question" vanish in the May Fourth narrative? How did conservatives and traditionalists endure admist the progressive wave of the new culture movement? What role did Confucian ritualism and religion play in shaping May Fourth literature? Is an uncanny connection hidden between …
Market and the Oikos, Vol. III
The Last Western Colony, 1918 – 1948 and Beyond
Av Hans Derks
Inbunden, 2025
2588 kr
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In the third volume of The Market and the Oikos, Hans Derks examines the transformative 30-year period from 1918 to 1948 in Palestine, situating it within the broader context of the decline of Western imperial power and the dissolution of the British Empire. Following World War I, the British …
Shifting Boundaries
A Global History of the Monroe Doctrine
Av Yongle Zhang
Inbunden, 2026
2768 kr
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This is a global history of the Monroe Doctrine through a Chinese lens. Delving deep into the evolution of the Monroe Doctrine's discourse and the spatial politics underpinning it, the book meticulously chronicles and dissects how the doctrine has been interpreted over time within the United …
Model Works During the Cultural Revolution
Inbunden, 2026
2198 kr
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This book offers a groundbreaking exploration of China’s Cultural Revolution through the lens of the Model Works, revealing their intricate fusion of politics, art, and ideology. From Mao’s diplomatic maneuvers to the enduring legacy of revolutionary opera, it traces how artistic innovation became …
