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11 produkter
Del 8 - Ideas, History, and Modern China
Signposts of Self-Realization
Evolution, Ethics and Sociality in Modern Chinese Literature and Film
Inbunden, Engelska, 2014
2 991 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 Social Darwinism: the biggest ego always won out? Is individualism always self-regarding, never other-regarding? How did the Greater I evolve out of the Lesser I socially and ethically? Confronting these questions, the author navigates through the terrains of paraphrastic translation, Buddhist nonself, lyrical epiphany, redemptive memory and ethnic orality to map out an alternative path for the growth of a modern Chinese self.
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Tapestry of Light
Aesthetic Afterlives of the Cultural Revolution
Inbunden, Engelska, 2014
1 980 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 currents in Cultural Revolution scholarship, the tone pervading the book is a rhythm of melancholia, indeterminacy but also hope. Huang demonstrates that aesthetic afterlives resist both the conservative nostalgia for China’s revolutionary past as well as China’s elated, false confidence in the market-driven future.Huang engages with prominent Chinese intellectuals, writers, artists and filmmakers, including Ba Jin, Han Shaogong, Hong Ying, Zhang Xiaogang, Jiang Wen and Ann Hui.
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Modern Miscellany
Shanghai Cartoon Artists, Shao Xunmei’s Circle and the Travels of Jack Chen, 1926-1938
Inbunden, Engelska, 2015
3 124 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 what was largely a transcultural phenomenon were an eclectic group working in the areas of fashion and commercial art and design. The book demonstrates that during the build up to all-out war the cartoon was not only important in the sphere of Shanghai popular culture in the eyes of the publishers and readers of pictorial magazines but that it occupied a central place in the primary discourse of Chinese modern art history.
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Imperial-Time-Order
Literature, Intellectual History, and China’s Road to Empire
Inbunden, Engelska, 2015
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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 way modern China developed itself conceptually. Weaving together intellectual debates with literary and media representations of imperial history since the late Qing period, ranging from novels, stage plays, films, to television series, Qian traces the different temporalities of each period and takes “time” as the analytical node by which issues of empire, nation, family, morality, individual and collective subjectivity are constructed and contested.
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Postsocialist Conditions
Ideas and History in China’s "Independent Cinema", 1988-2008
Inbunden, Engelska, 2018
3 943 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 Chinese society, their films articulate a new cultural-political logic in postsocialist China, which is also the logic of the market in this era of neoliberal transformation, brought about by the forces of marketization since the late 1980s.The directors laudably show the spirits of humanism and the humanitarian concerns of the underclass, yet the shortage and repudiation of class analysis prohibits the artists from exploring the social contradictions and the cause of class restructuration.
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Moulding the Socialist Subject
Cinema and Chinese Modernity (1949-1966)
Inbunden, Engelska, 2020
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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 argue that Chinese cinema in 1949–1966, at once an important political instrument, an enjoyable yet instructive form of entertainment, and a specific manifestation of the socialist society of the spectacle, was an everyday site where the moulding of the new socialist person unfolded. While painting a broad picture of Chinese socialist cinema, Lu credits the human agency of film professionals, whose self-reflexivity and individual adaptability played an intrinsic role in the Party’s political project.
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Science and the Confucian Religion of Kang Youwei (1858–1927)
China Before the Conflict Thesis
Inbunden, Engelska, 2021
2 109 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 Confucianism’.Confronted with the rise of scientism and challenged by the Conflict Thesis during his life among adversarial Chinese New Culture intellectuals, Kang maintains a holistic yet evolving conception of a compatible and complementary relationship between scientific knowledge and ‘true religion’ exemplified by his Confucian religion (kongjiao). This close analysis of Kang’s ideas contributes to a richer understanding of the history of science and religion in China and in a more global context.
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Big Cheat (Da ma bian): A Late Qing Novel by Huang Shizhong on Kang Youwei
Inbunden, Engelska, 2023
1 904 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 light on the reform-revolution dividefeatured in every narrative about the rise of modern China.Huang’s novel stands as a period testimony to the political and ideological struggles for China’s future during thelast years of the Qing dynasty before it fell in 1912. This is the first English language edition of the novel, translatedby Luke S. K. Kwong, who offers an extensive introduction contextualizing Huang's novel in historical perspective.
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Education and Democracy in China
To Confine the Surging Tide from the Outside World, 1901–1937
Inbunden, Engelska, 2023
1 601 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 the same coin in the development of democratic education. Through a multi-level analysis of the (re)arrangements of national education and teachings of citizenship, Zhou unravels the complex political and educational nexus in China between 1901–1937, where the hope of education was to bring both political modernity and social progress.
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New Vocabularies of May Fourth Studies
Inbunden, Engelska, 2024
2 079 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 “Return Qingdao” and “Liberate Hong Kong”? This volume, edited by Carlos Yu-Kai Lin and Victor H. Mair, and with contributors from across the fields of intellectual history, literature and languages, philosophy, and Asian studies, answers these questions and offers new insights into the May Fourth movement. It explores this pivotal historical event both as a singular occurrence and as a sustaining cultural-intellectual campaign. The new volume is brimming with fresh perspectives, uncovering these enigmas, and unveiling the nuanced and intricate world of the May Fourth to its discening readers.
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Market and the Oikos, Vol. III
The Last Western Colony, 1918 – 1948 and Beyond
Inbunden, Engelska, 2025
2 572 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 Empire sought to reassert its influence in the East, with particular emphasis on the Middle East due to the strategic importance of the Suez Canal and newly discovered oil resources.The author analyzes the complex interplay of British colonial policies, the Zionist settler movement, and evolving geopolitical alliances. This volume offers a nuanced exploration of the origins of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the long-lasting legacies of colonialism. It provides a critical examination of the geopolitics of the early 20th century, highlighting the significant global consequences of the collapse of imperial powers.