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Western Images Of China
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Author : Colin Mackerras
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 1989
Western Images Of China written by Colin Mackerras and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989 with History categories.
This book discusses the ways in which Westerners, from the earliest times until the late 1980s, have perceived China--both the China of their own time and the China of the past. Examining sources from all media, the author demonstrates the enormous variety in Western images of China over the centuries--at certain times China has constituted a model for schools of thought in the West, while at others the country has been viewed as a threat.
Western Images Of China
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Author : Colin Mackerras
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1991
Western Images Of China written by Colin Mackerras and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991 with categories.
In China S Image
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Author : R. Hodder
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2000-08-09
In China S Image written by R. Hodder and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-08-09 with History categories.
This book questions our perceptions of China. It is argued that what is commonly understood to be 'China' is, in large part, a collage of images. These images - created and manipulated by individuals and groups within the boundaries of the Chinese state in order to pursue their own social, economic and political ambitions - have been accepted, elaborated upon, strengthened and made legitimate by European and American social scientists and by other professional commentators on China. If shaped or strongly conditioned by these images, policies towards China are likely to prove either inappropriate or dangerous.
America Views China
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Author : Jonathan Goldstein
language : en
Publisher: Lehigh University Press
Release Date : 1991
America Views China written by Jonathan Goldstein and has been published by Lehigh University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991 with History categories.
U.S. historians present 16 essays on the American view of the Chinese from the 18th century to the present. Among the perspectives are art, commerce, missionary activity, diplomacy, popular culture, and a comparison with images of Japan. Includes a general bibliography. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
The Image Of China In Western Social And Political Thought
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Author : D. Jones
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2001-10-16
The Image Of China In Western Social And Political Thought written by D. Jones and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-10-16 with Political Science categories.
David Martin Jones examines how China has been portrayed in European and subsequently North American social and political thought and what, if anything, this depiction tells us about the character of this thought. Such a question immediately evokes the spectre of orientalism and subsequent chapters explore whether the identification of an orientalist project invalidates the knowledge claims of European and North American social and political thought as it evolved from the eighteenth to the twentieth century.
China Illustrated
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Author : Arthur Hacker
language : en
Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
Release Date : 2012-07-03
China Illustrated written by Arthur Hacker and has been published by Tuttle Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-07-03 with History categories.
This beautifully illustrated social history of China highlights various aspects of traditional China as seen through the eyes of foreign visitors and residents from the time of the first trading contacts with China in the mid-sixteenth century to the beginning of World War II. The lives and lifestyles of the fascinating mix of people who came to China, as well as the places they visited and the sights and customs that attracted their attention, are set against the backdrop of China's great cities and it's ancient culture. A short history of the period sets the scene in each chapter, allowing the reader to follow the dramatic changes that took place through the turbulent years when China moved from feudal empire to republic. The illustrated sections which follow focus on notable themes and topics. The hundreds of unique images in China Illustrated, including early engravings and maps, hand–colored prints, studio portraits and amateur photographs, postcards, drawings and cartons come from the private collection of Arthur Hacker. Collected with the eye of an artist and the knowledge of a historian they eloquently bring China's social history to life.
Through Western Eyes
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Author : Mimi Chan
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2011
Through Western Eyes written by Mimi Chan and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Literary Criticism categories.
A thorough, highly readable academic study on the stereotypes and prejudices that have been perpetuated in English literature and popular fiction regarding the Chinese woman.
Western Perspectives On The People S Republic Of China
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Author : Colin Mackerras
language : en
Publisher: World Scientific
Release Date : 2015-03-05
Western Perspectives On The People S Republic Of China written by Colin Mackerras and has been published by World Scientific this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-03-05 with Political Science categories.
How have Westerners seen the People's Republic of China over the years? The question raises many important issues, which this book aims to present, analyze and explain. The basic conclusion is that Western perspectives are somewhat more complex than simply viewing China's realities. Involved also are politics and power relations, trends in journalism and scholarship, as well as individual and group personalities and psychologies. Based on extensive personal experiences in China dating back to 1964 and wide-ranging travel in Tibet and ethnic regions since the 1980s, the author attempts to distinguish trends in different Western countries. However, most of the material will concern the United States, which has been the dominant contributor to Western perspectives during the whole period of concern to this book. The perspectives are taken up by topic, including politics, economy, society, and ethnic minorities. Inherent in each topic is the way cultures see and react towards each other. Images and perspectives can affect policy, and have done so many times in the past, which adds to the importance of this book. It also takes up questions of the sources of Western perspectives, both in terms of direct sources, such as newspapers, television or the internet, and deeper ones, such as social values and temperament. Contents:IntroductionHistorical BackgroundPolitical and International Relations Perspectives on China, 1949–1971Trends in Political and Foreign Relations Perspectives on China, 1971–2001Political and General Western Perspectives on China in the Twenty-First CenturyPerspectives on the Chinese Economy, Population Policy and Environment to the End of the Twentieth CenturyThe Twenty-First Century: Perspectives on the Chinese Economy, Population Issues and EnvironmentSocio-cultural Perspectives on the People's Republic of ChinaPerspectives on the Ethnic MinoritiesConclusion Readership: Undergraduates, graduates, academics and researchers who are interested in Chinese politics, economy and society, especially its ethnic minorities. Keywords:Political and Foreign Relations;Chinese Economy;Population Policy and Environment;Socio-cultural Images;Ethnic MinoritiesKey Features:The book deals with a range of perspectives/images on the People's Republic of China, including the highly important and controversial topic of Western perspectives on the ethnic minorities, especially Tibet and the TibetansThe book incorporates the author's extensive personal experiences in the People's Republic dating back to 1964, and his extensive travel in Tibet and ethnic regions since the 1980s
China From Empire To Nation State
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Author : Hui Wang
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2014-10-14
China From Empire To Nation State written by Hui Wang and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-10-14 with History categories.
This translation of the Introduction to Wang Hui’s Rise of Modern Chinese Thought (2004) makes part of his four-volume masterwork available to English readers for the first time. A leading public intellectual in China, Wang charts the historical currents that have shaped Chinese modernity from the Song Dynasty to the present day, and along the way challenges the West to rethink some of its most basic assumptions about what it means to be modern. China from Empire to Nation-State exposes oversimplifications and distortions implicit in Western critiques of Chinese history, which long held that China was culturally resistant to modernization, only able to join the community of modern nations when the Qing Empire finally collapsed in 1912. Noting that Western ideas have failed to take into account the diversity of Chinese experience, Wang recovers important strains of premodern thought. Chinese thinkers theorized politics in ways that do not line up neatly with political thought in the West—for example, the notion of a “Heavenly Principle” that governed everything from the ordering of the cosmos to the structure of society and rationality itself. Often dismissed as evidence of imperial China’s irredeemably backward culture, many Neo-Confucian concepts reemerged in twentieth-century Chinese political discourse, as thinkers and activists from across the ideological spectrum appealed to ancient precedents and principles in support of their political and cultural agendas. Wang thus enables us to see how many aspects of premodern thought contributed to a distinctly Chinese vision of modernity.
China And The West
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Author : Hon-Lun Yang
language : en
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Release Date : 2017-03
China And The West written by Hon-Lun Yang and has been published by University of Michigan Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-03 with Music categories.
A groundbreaking interdisciplinary volume exploring the phenomenon of the "Westernization" of contemporary Chinese music