This volume brings to the study of China the theoretical concerns and methods of contemporary critical cultural studies. Written by historians, art historians, anthropologists and literary critics who came of age after the People's Republic resumed scholarly ties with the United States, these essays provide new insights not only for China studies ...
Examining everything from films to shopping malls, theorist Jinhua explores the changes that China experienced through the 1980s and 1990s, as well as the influence that China has had on the rest of the world.
Selected writings by the revolutionary writer, feminist, and literary dissident Ding Ling (1904-1985), one of the most colorful and important Chinese women writers of the twentieth century.
Displaying the particular vitality of the global traditions of Marxism and neomarxism at the beginning of the twenty-first century, New Asian Marxisms collects essays by a range of scholars-including historians, political scientists, literary scholars, and sociologists-who offer a range of studies about the Marxist heritage, with a focus on Korea, ...
The essays in "Formations of Colonial Modernity in East Asia" challenge the idea that notions of modernity and colonialism are mere imports from the West, and show how colonial modernity has evolved from and into unique forms throughout Asia. Although the modernity of non-European colonies is as indisputable as the colonial core of European ...
"The Question of Women in Chinese Feminism" is a history of ideas about women in twentieth-century China. Tani E. Barlow tracks the categories that Chinese intellectuals have developed to think about women and connects these paradigms to transnational debates about eugenics, gender, sexuality, and the psyche. Contending that Chinese feminism has a ...
Controversial, challenging and outspoken, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak is one of the most visible and controversial cultural critics of our time. Her reputation was first made by her translation and preface to Jacques Derrida's ground-breaking work, "Of Grammatology". She has since built a global reputation in feminist, marxist and literary ...
Displaying the particular vitality of the global traditions of Marxism and neomarxism at the beginning of the twenty-first century, New Asian Marxisms collects essays by a range of scholars-including historians, political scientists, literary scholars, and sociologists-who offer a range of studies about the Marxist heritage, with a focus on Korea, ...
This impressive and lucid study displays the widely divergent trajectories of thought that stem from Asian studies and Asian production of Marxisms and, at the same time, exemplifies the New Internationalism in scholarly research. In its accounts of political struggles, cultural resistance, and theoretical strategies, "Marxist Scholarship" seeks ...
Through the lens of modern Chinese literature, "Gender Politics in Modern China" explores the relationship between gender and modernity, notions of the feminine and masculine, and shifting arguments for gender equality in China. Ranging from interviews with contemporary writers, to historical accounts of gendered writing in Taiwan and semi ...
Through the lens of modern Chinese literature, "Gender Politics in Modern China" explores the relationship between gender and modernity, notions of the feminine and masculine, and shifting arguments for gender equality in China. Ranging from interviews with contemporary writers, to historical accounts of gendered writing in Taiwan and semi ...
"The Question of Women in Chinese Feminism" is a history of ideas about women in twentieth-century China. Tani E. Barlow tracks the categories that Chinese intellectuals have developed to think about women and connects these paradigms to transnational debates about eugenics, gender, sexuality, and the psyche. Contending that Chinese feminism has a ...
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