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18 produkter
Nation and Aesthetics
On Kant and Freud
Inbunden, 2017
1839 kr
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Nation and Aesthetics is a unique attempt to examine the ambiguous nature of nationalism and nation by examining them through aesthetics. In this translation by Jonathan E. Abel, Darwin H. Tsen, and Hiroki Yoshikuni, Karatani grasps the modern social formation as a nexus of three different "modes …
Lin Shu, Inc.
Translation and the Making of Modern Chinese Culture
Häftad, 2016
987 kr
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Lin Shu, Inc. explores the dynamic interactions between literary translation, commercial publishing, and the politics of "traditional" Chinese culture in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It breaks new ground as the first full-length study in any Western language on the career and …
The Age of Silver
The Rise of the Novel East and West
Av Ning Ma
Inbunden, 2017
1689 kr
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The Age of Silver advances a "horizontal" method of comparative literature and applies this approach to analyze the multiple emergences of early realism and novelistic modernity in Eastern and Western cultural spheres from the sixteenth through the eighteenth centuries. Naming this era of economic …
A Taste for China
English Subjectivity and the Prehistory of Orientalism
Häftad, 2018
965 kr
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Challenging existing narratives of the relationship between China and Europe, this study establishes how modern English identity evolved through strategies of identifying with rather than against China. Through an examination of England's obsession with Chinese objects throughout the long …
The Russian Kurosawa
Transnational Cinema, or the Art of Speaking Differently
Inbunden, 2023
1435 kr
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The Russian Kurosawa offers a new historical perspective on the work of the renowned Japanese film director Akira Kurosawa. It uncovers Kurosawa's debt to the intellectual tradition of Japanese-Russian democratic dissent, reflected in the affinity for Kurosawa's worldview expressed by such Russian …
Translation as Citation
Zhuangzi Inside Out
Av Haun Saussy
Inbunden, 2017
1935 kr
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This volume examines translation from many different angles: it explores how translations change the languages in which they occur, how works introduced from other languages become part of the consciousness of native speakers, and what strategies translators must use to secure acceptance for …
Translating Early Modern China
Illegible Cities
Av Carla Nappi
Inbunden, 2021
1385 kr
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The history of China, as any history, is a story of and in translation. Translating Early Modern China tells the story of translation in China to and from non-European languages and Latin between the fourteenth and the nineteenth centuries, and primarily in the Ming and Qing dynasties. Each chapter …
Diasporic Poetics
Asian Writing in the United States, Canada, and Australia
Av Timothy Yu
Inbunden, 2021
1385 kr
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This book advances a new concept of the "Asian diaspora" that creates links between Asian American, Asian Canadian, and Asian Australian identities. Drawing from comparable studies of the black diaspora, it traces the histories of colonialism, immigration, and exclusion shared by these three …
Darwin in the Middle Kingdom
China, the West, and the Rise of Ecological Consciousness
Inbunden, 2027
1566 kr
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Darwin in the Middle Kingdom brings science and culture into dialogue to rethink how humans have understood their relationship to the natural world. Taking the Chinese reception of Darwinism as its point of departure, the book examines how scientific developments in Europe and North America shaped …
Music, Mind, and Language in Chinese Poetry and Performance
The Voice Extended
Inbunden, 2024
1467 kr
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"Poetry puts intent into words; singing lengthens words"--this is one of the earliest Chinese comments on artistic expression. Poetic language extends the reach of a sentiment beyond the individual, and musicality extends the reach of poetic language, not only across a room, but across geography …
Translating Early Modern China
Illegible Cities
Av Carla Nappi
Häftad, 2023
648 kr
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The history of China, as any history, is a story of and in translation. Translating Early Modern China tells the story of translation in China to and from non-European languages and Latin between the fourteenth and the nineteenth centuries, and primarily in the Ming and Qing dynasties. Each chapter …
Fin-de-siècle Russia and Chinese Aesthetics
The Other is the Universal
Av Jinyi Chu
Inbunden, 2024
1336 kr
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Many are familiar with European modernists' interest in Chinese art and poetry, however less well known is that Russian literature and art at the turn of 20th century also flourished in a sustained dialogue with China. In Fin-de-siècle Russia and Chinese Aesthetics, Jinyi Chu reconsiders the place …
Poverty in Modern Chinese Realism
From Russia, with Squalor
Av Keru Cai
Inbunden, 2025
1451 kr
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Poverty in Modern Chinese Realism shows that early twentieth century Chinese writers drew upon Russian texts about the socially downtrodden to describe poverty, in a bid to enrich Chinese culture by creating a syncretic new realism. Modern Chinese realist writers turned to the topic of material …
Optimism, Literature, and Culture in American Capitalism and Chinese Socialism
Av Wendy Larson
Inbunden, 2025
1271 kr
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This book examines and interprets the uncanny similarity between capitalism and socialism over the twentieth century as both systems found ways to encourage happiness and optimism in their citizens. As inheritors of the Enlightenment's emphasis on scientific rationality, these cultures sought to …
China Reborn, 1895–1912
Localism, Japanese Knowledge, and the Qing Empire's Reconfiguration
Av Fei Chen
Inbunden, 2026
1451 kr
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The master narrative of modern Chinese history has long framed the fall of the Qing empire and the rise of the Republic of China as the inevitable triumph of Chinese nationalism. This nationalist teleology obscures an intricate reality: many of the so-called nationalists were simultaneously …
Foreign Accents
Chinese American Verse from Exclusion to Postethnicity
Av Steven Yao
Inbunden, 2010
1155 kr
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Foreign Accents sets forth a historical poetics of verse by writers of Chinese descent in the U.S. from the early twentieth century to the present. With readings of works by Ezra Pound, Li-young Lee, Marilyn Chin, Ha Jin, and John Yau, this study charts the dimensions of Asian American verse as an …
Lin Shu, Inc.
Translation and the Making of Modern Chinese Culture
Inbunden, 2012
2231 kr
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Lin Shu, Inc. explores the dynamic interactions between literary translation, commercial publishing, and the politics of "traditional" Chinese culture in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It breaks new ground as the first full-length study in any Western language on the career and …
A Taste for China
English Subjectivity and the Prehistory of Orientalism
Inbunden, 2013
2494 kr
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Through an examination of England's obsession with Chinese things throughout the long eighteenth century, this book argues that chinoiserie in literature and material culture played a central role in shaping emergent conceptions of taste and subjectivity. In the wake of recent scholarship in the …
