China and Orientalism Western knowledge production and the P.R.C
This book argues that there is a new, Sinological form of orientalism at work in the world. It has shifted from a logic of 'essential difference' to one of 'sameness' or general equivalence. ""China"" is now in a halting but inevitable process of becoming-the-...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York :
Routledge
2012.
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| Edición: | 1st edition |
| Colección: | Postcolonial politics ;
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009628022006719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- China and Orientalism Western knowledge production and the P.R.C.; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1 Sinological-orientalism now: "China" and the new era; 2 Uncivil society, or orientalism and Tiananmen, 1989; 3 Maoist discourse and its demonization; 4 Accounting for the Great Leap Forward: missing millions, excess deaths, and a crisis of Chinese proportions; 5 DeLillo, Warhol, and the specter of Mao: the "Sinologization" of global thought; 6 Screening Sinology: on the Western study of Chinese film; 7 The China-reference and orientalism in the global economy; Notes
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