Chinese Worlds

Name: Chinese Worlds
Brand: Taylor & Francis Ltd
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Making the Imaginaries of China and Chineseness

By: Gregory B. Lee

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Hardcover | 7 November 2002 | Edition Number 1

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134 Pages

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21.6 x 13.8 x 1.6

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A socio-cultural study of the historical representation of China and Chineseness over the past hundred years or so, much of this book discusses the Orientalizing and crude racist ideologies that have formed the foundations of the way white people have both popularly and scientifically imagined China. The book also discusses how Chinese cultural producers in China, and in exile, have imagined China, sometimes challenging and sometimes reproducing nationalist narratives of Chineseness, both in elite literary representations, popular cultural texts, and recent Internet representations. The book emphasizes the hegemonic power of the social imaginary in determining the ways those in the west and in China, whether white, Chinese, or 'hybrid', imagine and narrate China and demonstrates that while there have been dominant ways of so doing, emergent minority and contestatory Chinese identities have often been marginalized.

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'a fascinating sketch of representations of 'China' and 'Chineseness' from the nineteenth century to the present day. ... This is a welcome British addition to an area of study that remains otherwise dominated by North American and Australian discourses.' - Brushstrokes

'In an age in which Chineseness is perhaps destined to become a more strictly articulated experience, [the author] has voiced a number of concerns that will even so deserve to be heard.' - Bulletin of SOAS

'A fascinating sketch of representations of 'China' and 'Chineseness' from the nineteenth century to the present day. ' - Brushstrokes

'In an age in which Chineseness is perhaps destined to become a more strictly articulated experience, [the author] has voiced a number of concerns that will even so deserve to be heard.' - Bulletin of SOAS

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