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Chinese garden pleasures : an appreciation
Celebrating the pleasures of garden living enjoyed by the elite of late imperial China, this book brings together poetry, prose, paintings and prints from imperial China to show the many facets of life and leisure in the Chinese garden.
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Contemporary Chinese Print Media
This book examines the transformations in form, genre, and content of contemporary Chinese print media. It describes and analyses the role of post-reform social stratification in the media, focusing particularly on how the changing practices and institutions of the industry correspond to and accelerate the emergence of a relatively affluent urban leisure-reading market. It argues that this reinvention of Chinese print media vis-à-vis the creation of a post-socialist taste (class) culture is an essential part of the cultural and affective transformations in contemporary Chinese society, and demonstrates how the reinvention of such taste culture effectively creates, through new kinds of reading materials and carefully demarcated target audiences, a middle-class civility that serves as the locus of the new niche media market.
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Savage Exchange
Savage Exchange explores the politics of representation during the Han dynasty (206 BCE–220 CE) at a pivotal moment when China was asserting imperialist power on the Eurasian continent and expanding its local and long-distance (“Silk Road\") markets. Tamara T. Chin explains why rival political groups introduced new literary forms with which to represent these expanded markets. To promote a radically quantitative approach to the market, some thinkers developed innovative forms of fiction and genre. In opposition, traditionalists reasserted the authority of classical texts and advocated a return to the historical, ethics-centered, marriage-based, agricultural economy that these texts described. The discussion of frontiers and markets thus became part of a larger debate over the relationship between the world and the written word. These Han debates helped to shape the ways in which we now define and appreciate early Chinese literature and produced the foundational texts of Chinese economic thought. Each chapter in the book examines a key genre or symbolic practice (philosophy, fu-rhapsody, historiography, money, kinship) through which different groups sought to reshape the political economy. By juxtaposing well-known texts with recently excavated literary and visual materials, Chin elaborates a new literary and cultural approach to Chinese economic thought. Co-Winner, 2016 Harry Levin Prize, American Comparative Literature Association; Honorable Mention, 2016 Joseph Levenson Book Prize, Pre-1900 Category, China and Inner Asia Council of the Association for Asian Studies
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Young China : national rejuvenation and the bildungsroman, 1900-1959
\"A synthesis of narrative theory and cultural history, Young China combines historical investigations of the origin and development of modern Chinese youth discourse with close analyses of the novelistic construction of the Chinese Bildungsroman, which depicts the psychological growth of youth with a symbolic allusion to national rejuvenation\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Language Ungoverned
By exploring a rich array of Malay texts from novels and
newspapers to poems and plays, Tom G. Hoogervorst's
Language Ungoverned examines how
the Malay of the Chinese-Indonesian community defied linguistic and
political governance under Dutch colonial rule, offering a fresh
perspective on the subversive role of language in colonial power
relations.
As a liminal colonial population, the ethnic Chinese in
Indonesia resorted to the press for their education, legal and
medical advice, conflict resolution, and entertainment. Hoogervorst
deftly depicts how the linguistic choices made by these print
entrepreneurs brought Chinese-inflected Malay to the fore as the
language of popular culture and everyday life, subverting the
official Malay of the Dutch authorities. Through his readings of
Sino-Malay print culture published between the 1910s and 1940s,
Hoogervorst highlights the inherent value of this vernacular Malay
as a language of the people.
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Reinventing Licentiousness
Reinventing Licentiousness
navigates an overlooked history of representation during
the transition from the Qing Empire to the Chinese Republic-a time
when older, hierarchical notions of licentiousness were overlaid by
a new, pornographic regime.
Y. Yvon Wang draws on previously untapped archives-ranging from
police archives and surveys to ephemeral texts and pictures-to
argue that pornography in China represents a unique configuration
of power and desire that both reflects and shapes historical
processes. On the one hand, since the late imperial period,
pornography has democratized pleasure in China and opened up new
possibilities of imagining desire. On the other, ongoing
controversies over its definition and control show how the
regulatory ideas of premodern cultural politics and the popular
products of early modern cultural markets have contoured the
globalized world.
Reinventing Licentiousness emphasizes the material
factors, particularly at the grassroots level of consumption and
trade, that governed \"proper\" sexual desire and led to ideological
shifts around the definition of pornography. By linking the past to
the present and beyond, Wang's social and intellectual history
showcases circulated pornographic material as a motor for cultural
change. The result is an astonishing foray into what historicizing
pornography can mean for our understandings of desire, legitimacy,
capitalism, and culture.
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Memory, fluid identity, and the politics of remembering : the representations of the Chinese Cultural Revolution in English-speaking countries
\"The Chinese Cultural Revolution is the single most important internal social event in contemporary Chinese history. The plethora of historical, literary, and artistic representations inspired by this event are critical to our understanding of the diversified, often contested, interpretations of contemporary China. Li Li's critical examination of autobiographic, filmic and fictional presentations in Memory, Fluid Identity, and the Politics of Remembering : The Representations of the Chinese Cultural Revolution in English-speaking Countries demonstrates that 'memory works' not only reflect memories of those who lived through that period, but memories about their past, and, more importantly, about their identity remapping and artistic negotiation in a cross-cultural environment\"--Provided by publisher.
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Heroines of the Qing
Heroines of the Qingintroduces an array of Chinese women from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries who were powerful, active subjects of their own lives and who wrote themselves as the heroines of their exemplary stories. Traditionally, \"exemplary women\" (lienu)-heroic martyrs, chaste widows, and faithful maidens, for example-were written into official dynastic histories for their unrelenting adherence to female virtue by Confucian family standards. However, despite the rich writing traditions about these women, their lives were often distorted by moral and cultural agendas. Binbin Yang, drawing on interdisciplinary sources, shows how they were able to cross boundaries that were typically closed to women-boundaries not only of gender, but also of knowledge, economic power, political engagement, and ritual and cultural authority. Yang closely examines the rhetorical strategies these \"exemplary women\" exploited for self-representation in various writing genres and highlights their skillful negotiation with, and appropriation of, the values of female exemplarity for self-empowerment.
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