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The Chinese Postmodern

Trauma and Irony in Chinese Avant-garde Fiction

By: Xiaobin Yang

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The Chinese Postmodern

Trauma and Irony in Chinese Avant-garde Fiction

By: Xiaobin Yang

An insightful look into contemporary Chinese avant-garde fiction and the problem of Chinese postmodernity

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University of Michigan Press

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0472112414

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9780472112418

Historical Farmland in China During 1661-1980

Reconstruction and Spatiotemporal Characteristics

By: Xiaobin Jin,Yinkang Zhou,Xuhong Yang,Yinong Cheng

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Historical Farmland in China During 1661-1980

Reconstruction and Spatiotemporal Characteristics

By: Xiaobin Jin,Yinkang Zhou,Xuhong Yang,Yinong Cheng

This book explores various approaches to reconstruct the spatial and temporal distribution of historical farmland in China. The book contains background information about political regimes, economic and social development, population changes and land resource utilization in the past 300 years in China. A literature review focuses on the assumptions, methodologies and models of reconstructing historical land-use datasets while addresses accuracy evaluation issues. Historical population size, its growth rate, and the evolution of spatial-temporal patterns of farmland in China have also been discussed. Almost all available historical data about farmland such as historical documents, archives, taxation records, statistics and research outcomes have been collected to reconstruct the amount of historical farmland. With a few principles and assumptions, a delicate Cellular Automaton (CA) and Multi-Agents (MAS) model based on bottom-up management scheme has been applied to derive the spatial-temporal distribution of farmland with the 1km*1km grid resolution for the period between 1661 and 1980 in China. Suggestions for future studies related to reconstructing historical land-use changes are then provided.

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Springer

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3319718797

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The Formation of Chinese Art Cinema

1990–2003

By: Li Yang

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The Formation of Chinese Art Cinema

1990–2003

By: Li Yang

The Formation of Chinese Art Cinema: 1990–2003 examines the development of Chinese art film in the People’s Republic of China from 1990, when the first Sixth Generation film Mama was released, to 2003, when authorities acknowledged the legitimacy of underground filmmakers. Through an exploration of the production and consecration mechanisms of the new art wave and its representative styles, this book argues that the art wave of the 1990s fundamentally defined Chinese art cinema. In particular, this vital art wave was not enabled by democratic liberalism, but by the specific industrial development, in which the film system transitioned from Socialist propaganda into a commercialized entity. Allowing Chinese art film to grow but at the same time denying its legitimacy, this paradoxical transition process shaped Chinese art film’s institutional and aesthetical alternative positioning, which eventually helped consolidate the art wave into art cinema. Ultimately, this book is a history of the Chinese portion of global art cinema, which also reveals the complex Chinese cultural experiences during the Reform Era.

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233

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Springer

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3319972111

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9783319972114

Space Production by Migrants in China's Urban Villages

The Case of Beijing

By: Shiyu Yang

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Space Production by Migrants in China's Urban Villages

The Case of Beijing

By: Shiyu Yang

As China races towards modernity, its cities are experiencing an unprecedented surge in urbanisation, characterised by a relentless influx of migrants and sprawling expansion into suburban realms. Shiyu Yang draws upon Henri Lefebvre's influential theoretical framework and applies it to case studies of two urban villages in Beijing to examine how migrants shape the social production of space in these districts. With a wealth of first-hand material from the field, this study provides essential insights into the ongoing processes and social dynamics that resonate with scholars from cross-disciplinary urban studies as well as practitioners in governance and urban planning.

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transcript Verlag

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3839469147

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Untamed Shrews

Negotiating New Womanhood in Modern China

By: Shu Yang

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Untamed Shrews

Negotiating New Womanhood in Modern China

By: Shu Yang

Untamed Shrews traces the evolution of unruly women in Chinese literature, from the reviled "shrew" to the celebrated "new woman." Notorious for her violence, jealousy, and promiscuity, the character of the shrew personified the threat of unruly femininity to the Confucian social order and served as a justification for punishing any woman exhibiting these qualities. In this book, Shu Yang connects these shrewish qualities to symbols of female empowerment in modern China. Rather than meeting her demise, the shrew persisted, and her negative qualities became the basis for many forms of the new woman, ranging from the early Republican suffragettes and Chinese Noras, to the Communist and socialist radicals. Criticism of the shrew endured, but her vicious, sexualized, and transgressive nature became a source of pride, placing her among the ranks of liberated female models. Untamed Shrews shows that whether male writers and the state hate, fear, or love them, there will always be a place for the vitality of unruly women. Unlike in imperial times, the shrew in modern China stayed untamed as an inspiration for the new woman.

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Cornell University Press

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1501770632

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9781501770630

The Phonology of Shanghai Sign Language

By: Jisheng Zhang,Yanhong Wu,Shengyun Gu,Feng Yang,Yin’er Zhu,Jeroen van de Weijer

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The Phonology of Shanghai Sign Language

By: Jisheng Zhang,Yanhong Wu,Shengyun Gu,Feng Yang,Yin’er Zhu,Jeroen van de Weijer

Applying the framework of the Prosodic Model to naturalistic data, this book presents a systematic study of the phonological structure of Shanghai Sign Language (SHSL). It examines the handshape inventory of SHSL in terms of its underlying featural specifications, phonetic realization and phonological processes such as assimilation, epenthesis, deletion, coalescence, non-dominant hand spread and weak drop. The authors define the role of the prosodic hierarchy in SHSL and analyze the linguistic functions of non-manual markers. This systematic investigation not only contributes to our understanding of SHSL itself, but also informs typological research on sign languages in the world.

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Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

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3111045552

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The Chinese Postmodern

Trauma and Irony in Chinese Avant-garde Fiction

By: Xiaobin Yang

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The Chinese Postmodern

Trauma and Irony in Chinese Avant-garde Fiction

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University of Michigan Press

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Chinese Revolution and Chinese Literature

By: Tao Dongfeng,Rosemary Roberts,Yang Xiaobin

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Chinese Revolution and Chinese Literature

By: Tao Dongfeng,Rosemary Roberts,Yang Xiaobin

This volume has brought together essays to explore, analyse and interpret the revolutionary tradition in modern Chinese literature over the past century from various angles. The authors examines the bodily or carnal dimension, especially the hidden implication of sexual passion, in revolutionary literature, formulate feminist critiques of the conception of women in literary expressions of revolution, explore the function of revolution as historical discourse and in historiographical representation, and discuss the reworking of “revolutionary classics” in recent literary and artistic endeavours. Here, revolution (in history and in literature) is conceptualized neither as an unquestionably progressive and creative force for a new world, nor an absolutely pejorative concept that necessarily leads to sociopolitical turmoil and tragedy. Insofar as “postrevolutionary writings” cannot but reappropriate the revolutionary spirit as their unavoidable and inseparable traumatic kernel, studies in revolutionary literature and culture, too, go through the zigzag experience of revolution in order to scrutinize its complex implications.

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330

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Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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1443810371

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9781443810371

Historical Farmland in China During 1661-1980

Reconstruction and Spatiotemporal Characteristics

By: Xiaobin Jin,Yinkang Zhou,Xuhong Yang,Yinong Cheng

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Historical Farmland in China During 1661-1980

Reconstruction and Spatiotemporal Characteristics

By: Xiaobin Jin,Yinkang Zhou,Xuhong Yang,Yinong Cheng

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Book's by Yang Xiaobin

The Chinese Postmodern

The Chinese Postmodern

Historical Farmland in China During 1661-1980

Historical Farmland in China During 1661-1980

The Formation of Chinese Art Cinema

The Formation of Chinese Art Cinema

Space Production by Migrants in China's Urban Villages

Space Production by Migrants in China's Urban Villages

Untamed Shrews

Untamed Shrews

The Phonology of Shanghai Sign Language

The Phonology of Shanghai Sign Language

The Chinese Postmodern

The Chinese Postmodern

Chinese Revolution and Chinese Literature

Chinese Revolution and Chinese Literature

Historical Farmland in China During 1661-1980

Historical Farmland in China During 1661-1980

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