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China, Transnational Visuality, Global Postmodernity

By: Hsiao-peng Lu,Sheldon H. Lu

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China, Transnational Visuality, Global Postmodernity

By: Hsiao-peng Lu,Sheldon H. Lu

By focusing on Chinese cultural formations and critical discourses of the last decade of the century, the author dissects the intellectual, economic, and political contradictions of a turbulent era. This wide-ranging, deeply interdisciplinary work demarcates the cultural terrain by examining diverse media: film, television, avant-garde art, and literature, as well as critical theory and intellectual history.

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Stanford University Press

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0804742049

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Chinese Modernity and Global Biopolitics

Studies in Literature and Visual Culture

By: Sheldon H. Lu

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Chinese Modernity and Global Biopolitics

Studies in Literature and Visual Culture

By: Sheldon H. Lu

This ambitious work is a multimedia, interdisciplinary study of Chinese modernity in the context of globalization from the late nineteenth century to the present. Sheldon Lu draws on Chinese literature, film, art, photography, and video to broadly map the emergence of modern China in relation to the capitalist world-system in the economic, social, and political realms. Central to his study is the investigation of biopower and body politics, namely, the experience of globalization on a personal level. Lu first outlines the trajectory of the body in modern Chinese literature by focusing on the adventures, pleasures, and sufferings of the male (and female) body in the writings of selected authors. He then turns to avant-garde and performance art, tackling the physical self more directly through a consideration of work that takes the body as its very theme, material, and medium. In an exploration of mass visual culture, Lu analyzes artistic reactions to the multiple, uneven effects of globalization and modernization on both the physical landscape of China and the interior psyche of its citizens. This is followed by an inquiry into contemporary Chinese urban space in popular cinema and experimental photography and art. Examples are offered that capture the daily lives of contemporary Chinese as they struggle to make the transition from the vanishing space of the socialist lifestyle to the new capitalist economy of commodities. Lu reexamines the history and implications of China’s belated integration into the capitalist world system before closing with a postscript that traces the genealogy of the term "postsocialism" and points to the real relevance of the idea for the investigation of everyday life in China in the twenty-first century.

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University of Hawaii Press

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0824861868

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9780824861865

Transnational Chinese Cinemas

Identity, Nationhood, Gender

By: Sheldon H. Lu

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Transnational Chinese Cinemas

Identity, Nationhood, Gender

By: Sheldon H. Lu

Zhang Yimou's first film, Red Sorghum, took the Golden Bear Award in 1988 at the Berlin International Film Festival. Since then Chinese films have continued to arrest worldwide attention and capture major film awards, winning an international following that continues to grow. Transnational Chinese Cinemas spans nearly the entire length of twentieth-century Chinese film history. The volume traces the evolution of Chinese national cinema, and demonstrates that gender identity has been central to its formation. Femininity, masculinity and sexuality have been an integral part of the filmic discourses of modernity, nationhood, and history. This volume represents the most comprehensive, wide-ranging, and up-to-date study of China's major cinematic traditions. It is an indispensable source book for modern Chinese and Asian history, politics, literature, and culture.

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University of Hawaii Press

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0824818458

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9780824818456

Harmonic Function Theory

By: Sheldon Axler,Paul Bourdon,Wade Ramey

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Harmonic Function Theory

By: Sheldon Axler,Paul Bourdon,Wade Ramey

Harmonic functions - the solutions of Laplace's equation - play a crucial role in many areas of mathematics, physics, and engineering. Avoiding the disorganization and inconsistent notation of other expositions, the authors approach the field from a more function-theoretic perspective, emphasizing techniques and results that will seem natural to mathematicians comfortable with complex function theory and harmonic analysis; prerequisites for the book are a solid foundation in real and complex analysis together with some basic results from functional analysis. Topics covered include: basic properties of harmonic functions defined on subsets of Rn, including Poisson integrals; properties bounded functions and positive functions, including Liouville's and Cauchy's theorems; the Kelvin transform; Spherical harmonics; hp theory on the unit ball and on half-spaces; harmonic Bergman spaces; the decomposition theorem; Laurent expansions and classification of isolated singularities; and boundary behavior. An appendix describes routines for use with MATHEMATICA to manipulate some of the expressions that arise in the study of harmonic functions.

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Springer

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0387215271

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9780387215273

Contemporary Chinese Cinema and Visual Culture

Envisioning the Nation

By: Sheldon Lu

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Contemporary Chinese Cinema and Visual Culture

Envisioning the Nation

By: Sheldon Lu

Honourable Mention, Best Monograph Award, BAFTSS Publication Awards 2022 Sheldon Lu's wide-ranging new book investigates how filmmakers and visual artists from mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan have envisioned China as it transitions from a socialist to a globalized capitalist state. It examines how the modern nation has been refashioned and re-imagined in order to keep pace with globalization and transnationalism. At the heart of Lu's analysis is a double movement in the relationship between nation and transnationalism in the Chinese post-socialist state. He considers the complexity of how the Chinese economy is integrated in the global capitalist system while also remaining a repressive body politic with mechanisms of control and surveillance. He explores the interrelations of the local, the national, the subnational, and the global as China repositions itself in the world. Lu considers examples from feature and documentary film, mainstream and marginal cinema, and a variety of visual arts: photography, painting, digital video, architecture, and installation. His close case studies include representations of class, masculinity and sexuality in contemporary Taiwanese and Chinese cinema; the figure of the sex worker as a symbol of modernity and mobility; and artists' representations of Beijing at the time of the 2008 Olympics.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1350234192

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9781350234192

From Historicity to Fictionality

The Chinese Poetics of Narrative

By: Hsiao-peng Lu,Xiaobeng Lu,Sheldon H. Lu

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From Historicity to Fictionality

The Chinese Poetics of Narrative

By: Hsiao-peng Lu,Xiaobeng Lu,Sheldon H. Lu

A comprehensive, comparative, and cross-cultural study of the poetics of the entire Chinese narrative tradition.

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0804723192

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China, Transnational Visuality, Global Postmodernity

By: Hsiao-peng Lu,Sheldon H. Lu

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China, Transnational Visuality, Global Postmodernity

By: Hsiao-peng Lu,Sheldon H. Lu

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China, Transnational Visuality, Global Postmodernity

China, Transnational Visuality, Global Postmodernity

Chinese Modernity and Global Biopolitics

Chinese Modernity and Global Biopolitics

Transnational Chinese Cinemas

Transnational Chinese Cinemas

Harmonic Function Theory

Harmonic Function Theory

Contemporary Chinese Cinema and Visual Culture

Contemporary Chinese Cinema and Visual Culture

From Historicity to Fictionality

From Historicity to Fictionality

China, Transnational Visuality, Global Postmodernity

China, Transnational Visuality, Global Postmodernity

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