Professor of Chinese Literature Leo Ou-Fan Lee's Books

Shanghai Modern

The Flowering of a New Urban Culture in China, 1930Ð1945

By: Leo Ou-fan Lee,Oufan Li,Professor of Chinese Literature Leo Ou-Fan Lee

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Shanghai Modern

The Flowering of a New Urban Culture in China, 1930Ð1945

By: Leo Ou-fan Lee,Oufan Li,Professor of Chinese Literature Leo Ou-Fan Lee

In the midst of ChinaÕs wild rush to modernize, a surprising note of reality arises: Shanghai, it seems, was once modern indeed, a pulsing center of commerce and art in the heart of the twentieth century. This book immerses us in the golden age of Shanghai urban culture, a modernity at once intrinsically Chinese and profoundly anomalous, blending new and indigenous ideas with those flooding into this Òtreaty portÓ from the Western world. A preeminent specialist in Chinese studies, Leo Ou-fan Lee gives us a rare wide-angle view of Shanghai culture in the making. He shows us the architecture and urban spaces in which the new commercial culture flourished, then guides us through the publishing and filmmaking industries that nurtured a whole generation of artists and established a bold new style in urban life known as modeng. In the work of six writers of the time, particularly Shi Zhecun, Mu Shiying, and Eileen Chang, Lee discloses the reflection of ShanghaiÕs urban landscapeÑforeign and familiar, oppressive and seductive, traditional and innovative. This work acquires a broader historical and cosmopolitan context with a look at the cultural links between Shanghai and Hong Kong, a virtual genealogy of Chinese modernity from the 1930s to the present day.

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Harvard University Press

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0674805518

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9780674805514

The Hypothetical Mandarin : Sympathy, Modernity, and Chinese Pain

Sympathy, Modernity, and Chinese Pain

By: Eric Hayot Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Director of the Program in Asian Studies Pennsylvania State University

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The Hypothetical Mandarin : Sympathy, Modernity, and Chinese Pain

Sympathy, Modernity, and Chinese Pain

By: Eric Hayot Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Director of the Program in Asian Studies Pennsylvania State University

Why has the West for so long and in so many different ways expressed the idea that the Chinese have a special relationship to cruelty and to physical pain? What can the history of that idea and its expressions teach us about the politics of the West's contemporary relation to China? And what does it tell us about the philosophy of modernity? The Hypothetical Mandarin is, in some sense, a history of the Western imagination. It is also a history of the interactions between Enlightenment philosophy, of globalization, of human rights, and of the idea of the modern. Beginning with Bianchon and Rastignac's discussion of whether the former would, if he could, obtain a European fortune by killing a Chinese mandarin in Balzac's Le Pere Goriot (1835), the book traces a series of literary and historical examples in which Chinese life and European sympathy seem to hang in one another's balance. Hayots wide-ranging discussion draws on accounts of torture, on medical case studies, travelers tales, photographs, plasticized corpses, polemical broadsides, watercolors, and on oil paintings. His analyses show that the historical connection between sympathy and humanity, and indeed between sympathy and reality, has tended to refract with a remarkable frequency through the lens called "China," and why the story of the West's Chinese pain goes to the heart of the relation between language and the body and the social experience of the modern human being. Written in an ebullient prose, The Hypothetical Mandarin demonstrates how the network that intertwines China, sympathy, and modernity continues to shape the economic and human experience.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0199700117

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9780199700110

Learning for One's Self

Essays on the Individual in Neo-Confucian Thought

By: William Theodore De Bary,Wm. Theodore De Bary,John Mitchell Mason Professor of the University and Provost Emeritus Wm Theodore De Bary

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Learning for One's Self

Essays on the Individual in Neo-Confucian Thought

By: William Theodore De Bary,Wm. Theodore De Bary,John Mitchell Mason Professor of the University and Provost Emeritus Wm Theodore De Bary

Well known as a scholar of Asian culture, de Bary examines the concepts of self-understanding and self-cultivation in neo-Confucian thought from the 12th to the 17th centuries, in relation to the social, political, and scholarly roles of educated men in late imperial China. Rejecting the notion that

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Columbia University Press

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0231074263

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9780231074261

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Shanghai Modern

Shanghai Modern

The Hypothetical Mandarin : Sympathy, Modernity, and Chinese Pain

The Hypothetical Mandarin : Sympathy, Modernity, and Chinese Pain

Learning for One's Self

Learning for One's Self

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