Rebecca E Karl

The Magic of Concepts

History and the Economic in Twentieth-Century China

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. März 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 157mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9780822363101
• ISBN-10: 0822363100
• Artikelnr.: 44945475

Autorenporträt

Rebecca E. Karl

Inhaltsangabe

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