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31 produkter
Literature the People Love
Reading Chinese Texts from the Early Maoist Period (1949-1966)
Av Krista Van Fleit Hang, Kenneth A. Loparo m. fl.
Inbunden, 2013
633 kr
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Examining the production of 'people's literature' in China, this study provides a new interpretive framework with which to understand socialist literature and presents a sympathetic understanding of culture from a period in China's history in which people's lives were greatly and obviously affected …
Listening to China’s Cultural Revolution
Music, Politics, and Cultural Continuities
Av Laikwan Pang, Paul Clark m. fl.
Inbunden, 2015
1015 kr
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Bringing together the most recent research on the Cultural Revolution in China, musicologists, historians, literary scholars, and others discuss the music and its political implications. Combined, these chapters, paint a vibrant picture of the long-lasting impact that the musical revolution had on …
Public Discourses of Contemporary China
The Narration of the Nation in Popular Literatures, Film, and Television
Av Y. Shen
Inbunden, 2015
567 kr
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Analyzing contemporary Chinese literature, film, and television, Shen shows the significance of nationalism for the mass imagination in post-socialist China. Chapters move from the intellectual idealism of the 1980s, through the post-Tiananmen transition, to the national cinema of the 1990s, and …
Chinese Language in European Texts
The Early Period
Av Dinu Luca
Inbunden, 2016
633 kr
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This detailed, chronological study investigates the rise of the European fascination with the Chinese language up to 1615. By meticulously investigating a wide range of primary sources, Dinu Luca identifies a rhetorical continuum uniting the land of the Seres, Cathay, and China in a tropology of …
Gender and Subjectivities in Early Twentieth-Century Chinese Literature and Culture
Av P. Zhu
Inbunden, 2015
633 kr
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Through both cultural and literary analysis, this book examines gender in relation to late Qing and modern Chinese intellectuals, including Mu Shiying, Bai Wei, and Lu Xun. Tackling important, previously neglected questions, Zhu ultimately shows the resilience and malleability of Chinese modernity …
Staging China
New Theatres in the Twenty-First Century
Av LI Ruru
Inbunden, 2015
1239 kr
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An insightful analysis of more than a dozen Chinese stage productions, Staging China illustrates how Chinese society is reflected by and even constructed through theatre. Scholars from around the globe explore wide-ranging topics including recent approaches to classical theatre, propaganda theatre, …
Literature the People Love
Reading Chinese Texts from the Early Maoist Period (1949-1966)
Av Krista Van Fleit Hang, Kenneth A. Loparo m. fl.
Häftad, 2015
633 kr
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Examining the production of 'people's literature' in China, this study provides a new interpretive framework with which to understand socialist literature and presents a sympathetic understanding of culture from a period in China's history in which people's lives were greatly and obviously affected …
Public Discourses of Contemporary China
The Narration of the Nation in Popular Literatures, Film, and Television
Av Y. Shen
Häftad, 2015
633 kr
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Analyzing contemporary Chinese literature, film, and television, Shen shows the significance of nationalism for the mass imagination in post-socialist China. Chapters move from the intellectual idealism of the 1980s, through the post-Tiananmen transition, to the national cinema of the 1990s, and …
Listening to China’s Cultural Revolution
Music, Politics, and Cultural Continuities
Av Laikwan Pang, Paul Clark m. fl.
Häftad, 2016
770 kr
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Bringing together the most recent research on the Cultural Revolution in China, musicologists, historians, literary scholars, and others discuss the music and its political implications. Combined, these chapters, paint a vibrant picture of the long-lasting impact that the musical revolution had on …
Feminism, Women's Agency, and Communication in Early Twentieth-Century China
The Case of the Huang-Lu Elopement
Av Qiliang He
Häftad, 2018
960 kr
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Feminism, Women’s Agency, and Communication in Early Twentieth-Century China focuses on a sensational elopement in the Yangzi Delta in the late 1920s to explore how middle- and lower-class members of society gained access to and appropriated otherwise alien and abstract enlightenment theories and …
Ideology and Utopia in China's New Wave Cinema
Globalization and Its Chinese Discontents
Häftad, 2018
782 kr
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Ideology and Utopia in China’s New Wave Cinema investigates the ways in which New Wave filmmakers represent China in this age of neoliberal reform. Analyzing this paradigm shift in independent cinema, this text explores the historicity of the cinematic form and its cultural-political visions. …
Chinese Environmental Humanities
Practices of Environing at the Margins
Inbunden, 2019
1318 kr
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Chinese Environmental Humanities showcases contemporary ecocritical approaches to Chinese culture and aesthetic production as practiced in China itself and beyond. As the first collaborative environmental humanities project of this kind, this book brings together sixteen scholars from a diverse …
Chinese Environmental Humanities
Practices of Environing at the Margins
Häftad, 2020
1318 kr
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Chinese Environmental Humanities showcases contemporary ecocritical approaches to Chinese culture and aesthetic production as practiced in China itself and beyond. As the first collaborative environmental humanities project of this kind, this book brings together sixteen scholars from a diverse …
Chinese Adaptations of Brecht
Appropriation and Intertextuality
Av Wei Zhang
Inbunden, 2020
960 kr
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This book examines the two-way impacts between Brecht and Chinese culture and drama/theatre, focusing on Chinese theatrical productions since the end of the Cultural Revolution all the way to the first decades of the twenty-first century. Wei Zhang considers how Brecht’s plays have been …
Chinese Adaptations of Brecht
Appropriation and Intertextuality
Av Wei Zhang
Häftad, 2021
960 kr
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This book examines the two-way impacts between Brecht and Chinese culture and drama/theatre, focusing on Chinese theatrical productions since the end of the Cultural Revolution all the way to the first decades of the twenty-first century. Wei Zhang considers how Brecht’s plays have been …
Craziness and Carnival in Neo-Noir Chinese Cinema
Inbunden, 2021
782 kr
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Craziness and Carnival in Neo-Noir Chinese Cinema offers an in-depth discussion of the “stone phenomenon” in Chinese film production and cinematic discourses triggered by the extraordinary success of the 2006 low-budget film, Crazy Stone. Surveying the nuanced implications of the film noir genre, …
Cultural Revolution Manuscripts
Unofficial Entertainment Fiction from 1970s China
Inbunden, 2021
1079 kr
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This book investigates handwritten entertainment fiction (shouchaoben wenxue) which circulated clandestinely during the Chinese Cultural Revolution. Lena Henningsen’s analyses of exemplary stories and their variation across different manuscript copies brings to light the creativity of these …
Cultural Revolution Manuscripts
Unofficial Entertainment Fiction from 1970s China
Häftad, 2022
782 kr
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This book investigates handwritten entertainment fiction (shouchaoben wenxue) which circulated clandestinely during the Chinese Cultural Revolution. Lena Henningsen’s analyses of exemplary stories and their variation across different manuscript copies brings to light the creativity of these …
Fusion of Critical Horizons in Chinese and Western Language, Poetics, Aesthetics
Av Ming Dong Gu
Inbunden, 2021
1556 kr
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This book begins with a reflection on dichotomies in comparative studies of Chinese and Western literature and aesthetics. Critiquing an oppositional paradigm, Ming Dong Gu argues that despite linguistic and cultural differences, the two traditions share much common ground in critical theory, …
Fusion of Critical Horizons in Chinese and Western Language, Poetics, Aesthetics
Av Ming Dong Gu
Häftad, 2022
1437 kr
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This book begins with a reflection on dichotomies in comparative studies of Chinese and Western literature and aesthetics. Critiquing an oppositional paradigm, Ming Dong Gu argues that despite linguistic and cultural differences, the two traditions share much common ground in critical theory, …
French in Macao in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
Literary, Cultural, and Historical Perspectives
Av Jingzhen Xie
Inbunden, 2022
1437 kr
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The French in Macao in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries: Literary, Cultural, and Historical Perspectives investigates the role that Macao played as a meeting place of the East and the West during this period of time and its decline as a Portuguese colony in the eyes of the Europeans. …
French in Macao in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
Literary, Cultural, and Historical Perspectives
Av Jingzhen Xie
Häftad, 2023
1437 kr
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The French in Macao in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries: Literary, Cultural, and Historical Perspectives investigates the role that Macao played as a meeting place of the East and the West during this period of time and its decline as a Portuguese colony in the eyes of the Europeans. …
Traditional Chinese Fiction in the English-Speaking World
Transcultural and Translingual Encounters
Av Junjie Luo
Inbunden, 2022
1318 kr
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This book develops interdisciplinary and comparative approaches to analyzing the cross-cultural travels of traditional Chinese fiction. It ties this genre to issues such as translation, world literature, digital humanities, book culture, and images of China. Each chapter offers a case study of the …
Traditional Chinese Fiction in the English-Speaking World
Transcultural and Translingual Encounters
Av Junjie Luo
Häftad, 2023
1318 kr
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This book develops interdisciplinary and comparative approaches to analyzing the cross-cultural travels of traditional Chinese fiction. It ties this genre to issues such as translation, world literature, digital humanities, book culture, and images of China. Each chapter offers a case study of the …
Culture, History, and the Reception of Tennessee Williams in China
Av Shouhua Qi
Inbunden, 2022
1318 kr
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This book is the first comprehensive study of the reception of Tennessee Williams in China, from rejection and/or misgivings to cautious curiosity and to full-throated acceptance, in the context of profound changes in China’s socioeconomic and cultural life and mores since the end of the Cultural …
Culture, History, and the Reception of Tennessee Williams in China
Av Shouhua Qi
Häftad, 2023
1318 kr
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This book is the first comprehensive study of the reception of Tennessee Williams in China, from rejection and/or misgivings to cautious curiosity and to full-throated acceptance, in the context of profound changes in China’s socioeconomic and cultural life and mores since the end of the Cultural …
Ecocriticism and Speculative Fiction in East Asia
Rethinking the Human
Av Xinmin Liu, Hua Li
Inbunden, 2026
1675 kr
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This volume illustrates Asian speculative fiction's potential to interrogate and inspire humanity's ecological and ethical responsibilities, seeking to fill a major lacuna in previous academic literature around ecocriticism in speculative fiction. Contributions are thematically organized into three …
Constructing Chinese Literature in the Twentieth Century
Redefining World Literature
Av Ying Xiong
Inbunden, 2026
1437 kr
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This book examines how Chinese thinkers and writers drew on foreign literature between 1918 and 1958 in order to construct China's independent cultural identity. By covering work by authors such as Lu Xun, Yuan Shu, Zhou Libo, Bing Xin, Ding Lin, Guo Xiaochuan, Ye Junjian, and others, this book …
Suzhou and Venice
Textual Constructions and Cross-Cultural Visions
Inbunden, 2027
1652 kr
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This book traces the key stages in the cultural construction of Suzhou as ‘the Venice of China,’ through textual and visual representations by European missionaries, travellers and intellectuals from the thirteenth through nineteenth centuries. The images and representations of China they produced …
Feminism, Women's Agency, and Communication in Early Twentieth-Century China
The Case of the Huang-Lu Elopement
Av Qiliang He
Inbunden, 2018
1239 kr
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Feminism, Women’s Agency, and Communication in Early Twentieth-Century China focuses on a sensational elopement in the Yangzi Delta in the late 1920s to explore how middle- and lower-class members of society gained access to and appropriated otherwise alien and abstract enlightenment theories and …
