
Chinas Unlimited
Making the Imaginaries of China and Chineseness
Gregory B. Lee(Author)
Routledge (Publisher)
1st Edition
Will be published approx. on 7. November 2002
Book
Hardback
134 pages
978-0-7007-1492-6 (ISBN)
Description
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 people in the west, both popularly and scientifically, have imagined China.
Reviews / Votes
'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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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 138 mm
Weight
453 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7007-1492-6 (9780700714926)
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Person
Gregory B. Lee
Content
1 Chinese Reveries, English Railings: Reimagining Twentieth-Century Histories 2 Addicted, Demented, and Taken to the Cleaners: The White Invention and Representation of the 'Chinaman' 3 Re-taking Tiger Mountain by Television: Televisual Socialization of the Contemporary Chinese Consumer 4 Paddy's Chinatown, or The Harlequin's Coat: A Short (Hi)story of a Liverpool Hybridit