This ambitious work offers a comprehensive mapping of the cultural landscape of China in the late twentieth century. By focusing on Chinese cultural formations and critical discourses of the last decade of the century, the book dissects the intellectual, economic, and political contradictions of a turbulent era post-cold war, postsocialist, and ...
"A comprehensive and ambitious study of Chinese Narrative." - Choice This is the first comprehensive work in English on the complex history and theory of traditional Chinese narrative. It describes the major Chinese conventions and strategies for interpreting narrative works, both historical and fictional, from the earliest narratives through ...
This ambitious work is a multimedia, interdisciplinary study of Chinese modernity in the context of globalization from the late nineteenth century to the present. Sheldon Lu draws on Chinese literature, film, art, photography, and video to broadly map the emergence of modern China in relation to the capitalist world-system in the economic, social, ...
This work analyses traditional Chinese narrative and the major conventions and strategies of reading and interpreting narrative works, both historical and fictional, from the earliest narratives through the Ch'ing dynasty. Traditionally, fictional narratives were read and judged as if they were historical works. Only with the widespread popularity ...
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