Utopia and Modernity in China: Contradictions in Transition

Herausgeber: Margolies, David; Cao, Qing

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Exploring the conflict between China's rapid modernisation and the west, as well as its own traditional values -- KO

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Pluto Press
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Februar 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 135mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 186g
• ISBN-13: 9780745347394
• ISBN-10: 0745347398
• Artikelnr.: 67514213

Autorenporträt

David Margolies is Emeritus Professor of English at Goldsmiths, University of London. He is the author of Shakespeare's Irrational Endings: The Problem Plays, and edited Culture as Politics: Selected Writings of Christopher Caudwell. Qing Cao is Associate Professor in the School of Modern Languages and Cultures at the University of Durham. He is the author of China under Western Gaze, and co-editor of Discourse, Politics and Media in Contemporary China and Brand China in the Media.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Introduction - David Margolies and Qing Cao
1. The Lure of Utopia: Reinterpreting Liang Qichao's Xinmin Shuo, 1902-1906
- Qing Cao
2. Utopian Future in Chinese Poetry: Bian Zhilin in Republican China - Yang
Zhou
3. The China Dream: Harmonious Dialectics and International Law - Yonit
Manor-Percival
4. Nostalgic Utopia in Chinese Aesthetic Modernity: The Case of the Film
Fang Hua (Youth) - Jie Wang (translated by Charles Collins)
5. American Dreams in China: The Case of Zhongguo Hehuoren - Qinghong Yin
(translated by Charles Collins)
6. Between Reality and Utopia: Chinese Underclass Literature since the
1990s - Jiaona Xu (translated by Charles Collins)
7. Eco-humanism and the Construction of Eco-aesthetics in China - Xiangzhan
Cheng (translated by Charles Collins)
Notes on Contributors
Index