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Imagining the Nation

Asian American Literature and Cultural Consent

By: David Leiwei Li

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Imagining the Nation

Asian American Literature and Cultural Consent

By: David Leiwei Li

This book identifies the forces behind the explosive growth in Asian American literature. It charts its emergence and explores both the unique place of Asian Americans in American culture and what that place says about the way Americanness is defined.

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Stanford University Press

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0804741301

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9780804741309

Economy, Emotion, and Ethics in Chinese Cinema

Globalization on Speed

By: David Leiwei Li

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Economy, Emotion, and Ethics in Chinese Cinema

Globalization on Speed

By: David Leiwei Li

The First and Second Comings of capitalism are conceptual shorthands used to capture the radical changes in global geopolitics from the Opium War to the end of the Cold War and beyond. Centring the role of capitalism in the Chinese everyday, the framework can be employed to comprehend contemporary Chinese culture in general and, as in this study, Chinese cinema in particular. This book investigates major Chinese-language films from mainland China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong in order to unpack a hyper-compressed capitalist modernity with distinctive Chinese characteristics. As a dialogue between the film genre as a mediation of microscopic social life, and the narrative of economic development as a macroscopic political abstraction, it engages the two otherwise remotely related worlds, illustrating how the State and the Subject are reconstituted cinematically in late capitalism. A deeply cultural, determinedly historical, and deliberately interdisciplinary study, it approaches "culture" anthropologically, as a way of life emanating from the everyday, and aesthetically, as imaginative forms and creative expressions. Economy, Emotion, and Ethics in Chinese Cinema will appeal to students and scholars of Chinese cinema, cultural studies, Asian studies, and interdisciplinary studies of politics and culture.

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Routledge

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131730988X

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Economy, Emotion, and Ethics in Chinese Cinema

Globalization on Speed

By: David Leiwei Li

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Globalization on Speed

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Globalization and the Humanities

By: David Leiwei Li

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Globalization and the Humanities

By: David Leiwei Li

This is the most comprehensive collection to date on how economic globalization transforms contemporary humanistic inquiries on matters of fundamental cultural and political significance. Against the tyranny of the worldwide free market that naturalizes the aggregation of power for the increasingly few, the contributors to this volume at once advocate an egalitarian model of global distributive justice and cultivate a cosmopolitan communal consciousness. Writing from their diverse specialties and theoretical perspectives, the group of scholars assembled here has made the humanities a productive forum to articulate an alternative form of globalization based on universal human rights. As such, this collaborative effort counters the hegemony of neoliberal privatization and holds the promise of intellectual agency for an equitable reproduction of cultural capital in the global era. Globalization and the Humanities will be of great use for scholars and students interested in the intellectual and ideological developments of the humanities in the past three decades. It clearly anchors the debates on the canon, the inclusion of third world and minority authors, of popular cultural genres and new media forms in an emerging globalization paradigm. The anthology will prove essential for students of undergraduate and graduate levels as well for scholars in the academy.

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359

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Hong Kong University Press

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9622096530

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Chinese Urban Shi-nema

Cinematicity, Society and Millennial China

By: David H. Fleming,Simon Harrison

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Chinese Urban Shi-nema

Cinematicity, Society and Millennial China

By: David H. Fleming,Simon Harrison

This book dives into the mise-en-scène of contemporary China to explore the “becoming cinema” of Chinese cities, societies, and subjectivities. Set in the wake of China’s radical and rapid period of urbanization and infrastructural transformation, and situating itself in the processual city of Ningbo, the book combines empirical, ficto-critical, and philosophical methods to generate a dynamic account of everyday life as new forms of consumer culture bed in. Harnessing a Realist approach that allows for different scales of analysis, the book zooms in on five architectural assemblages including: surreal real estate showrooms; a fragmented history museum; China’s “first and best” Sino-foreign university; a new “Old town”; and weird gamified “any-now(here)-spaces.” Together these modern arrangements and machines for living cast light upon the broader picture sweeping up greater China.

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Springer Nature

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3030496759

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Imagining the Nation

Asian American Literature and Cultural Consent

By: David Leiwei Li

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Asian American Literature and Cultural Consent

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Stanford University Press

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The Self in Moral Space

Life Narrative and the Good

By: David Parker

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The Self in Moral Space

Life Narrative and the Good

By: David Parker

All of us take our moral bearings from a conception of the good, or a range of goods, that we consider most important. We are in this sense selves in moral space. Building on the work of the philosopher Charles Taylor, among others, David Parker examines a range of classic and contemporary autobiographies—including those of St. Augustine, William Wordsworth, Friedrich Nietzsche, Edmund Gosse, Roland Barthes, Seamus Heaney, and J. M. Coetzee—to reveal a whole domain of life narrative that has been previously ignored, one that enables a new approach to the question of what constitutes a "good" life narrative. Moving from an ethics toward an aesthetics of life writing, Parker follows Wittgenstein's view that ethics and aesthetics are one. The Self in Moral Space is distinctive in that its key ethical question is not What is it right for the life writer to do? but the broader question What is it good to be? This question opens up an important debate with the dominant postmodern paradigms that prevail in life writing studies today. In Parker's estimation, such paradigms are incapable of explaining why life writing matters in the contemporary context. Life narrative, he argues, faces readers with the perennial ethical question How should a human being live? We need a new reconstructive paradigm, as offered by this book, in order to gain a fuller understanding of life narrative and its humanistic potential.

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Cornell University Press

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1501732285

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Racial Castration

Managing Masculinity in Asian America

By: David L. Eng

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Racial Castration

Managing Masculinity in Asian America

By: David L. Eng

DIVA psychoanalytic study that argues for the centrality of sexuality in the construction of Asian-American identity, and of racial identity in general./div

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Duke University Press

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0822326361

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9780822326366

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Imagining the Nation

Imagining the Nation

Economy, Emotion, and Ethics in Chinese Cinema

Economy, Emotion, and Ethics in Chinese Cinema

Economy, Emotion, and Ethics in Chinese Cinema

Economy, Emotion, and Ethics in Chinese Cinema

Globalization and the Humanities

Globalization and the Humanities

Chinese Urban Shi-nema

Chinese Urban Shi-nema

Imagining the Nation

Imagining the Nation

The Self in Moral Space

The Self in Moral Space

Racial Castration

Racial Castration

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