The Magic of Concepts
History and the Economic in Twentieth-Century China
1st Edition
Published on 2. March 2017
232 pages
978-0-8223-7332-2 (ISBN)
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Rebecca E. Karl interrogates the concept and practice of "the economic" as it was understood in China in the 1930s and the 1980s and 90s, showing how the use of Eurocentric philosophies, narratives, and conceptions of the economic that exist outside lived experiences fail to capture modern China's complex history.
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Rebecca E. Karl is Associate Professor of History at New York University. She is the author of Mao Zedong and China in the Twentieth-Century World: A Concise History and Staging the World: Chinese Nationalism at the Turn of the Twentieth Century, and co-translator (with Xueping Zhong) of Cai Xiang's Revolution and Its Narratives: China's Socialist Literary and Cultural Imaginaries, 1949-1966, all also published by Duke University Press. She co-translated and coedited (with Lydia H. Liu and Dorothy Ko) The Birth of Chinese Feminism: Essential Texts in Transnational Theory.
Content
Preface and Acknowledgments ix
Introduction. Repetition and Magic 1
1. The Economic, China, World History: A Critique of Pure Ideology 19
2. The Economic and the State: The Asiatic Mode of Production 40
3. The Economic as Transhistory: Temporality, the Market, and the Austrian School 73
4. The Economic as Lived Experience: Semicolonialism and China 113
5. The Economic as Culture and the Culture of the Economic: Filming Shanghai 141
Afterword 160
Notes 167
Bibliography 199
Index 213
Introduction. Repetition and Magic 1
1. The Economic, China, World History: A Critique of Pure Ideology 19
2. The Economic and the State: The Asiatic Mode of Production 40
3. The Economic as Transhistory: Temporality, the Market, and the Austrian School 73
4. The Economic as Lived Experience: Semicolonialism and China 113
5. The Economic as Culture and the Culture of the Economic: Filming Shanghai 141
Afterword 160
Notes 167
Bibliography 199
Index 213
