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Poverty In Modern Chinese Realism - From Russia, With Squalor

by Keru Cai

~~82,14€~~ 73,93€ 10% OFF

 Poverty in Modern Chinese Realism shows that early twentieth century Chinese writers drew upon Russian texts about the socially downtrodden to describe poverty, in a bid to enrich Chinese culture by creating a syncretic new realism. Modern Chinese realist writers turned to the topic of material povertya "peasants suffering from famine, exploited urban laborers, homeless orphansa "to convey their sense of textual poverty and national backwardness. The combination of a radically new subject matter and experimentation with diverse literary resources, indigenous and foreign, generated major innovations in narrative technique. Depicting poverty allowed writers to revolutionize the nascent forms of modern Chinese narrative, innovating strategies of representing the nation, the social other, time, and space, while problematizing their deployment of squalor for aesthetic purposes. This book examines why Russian literature, itself long preoccupied with a problem of belatedness vis-A -vis Western Europe, occupied a privileged place for Chinese intellectuals of this era. Comparing Chinese fiction about poverty to Russian intertexts by Gogol, Andreev, Chekhov, Turgenev, and others, the book shows how Chinese writers drew and innovated upon themes (such as madness or human animality) and formal elements (such as metonymy). Keru Cai's multi-scalar approach emphasizing close textual analysis situates modern Chinese realism in the trans-Eurasian axis of world literature.
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Poverty In Modern Chinese Realism - From Russia, With Squalor

by Keru Cai

~~82,14€~~ 73,93€ 10% OFF

 Poverty in Modern Chinese Realism shows that early twentieth century Chinese writers drew upon Russian texts about the socially downtrodden to describe poverty, in a bid to enrich Chinese culture by creating a syncretic new realism. Modern Chinese realist writers turned to the topic of material poverty-peasants suffering from famine, exploited urban laborers, homeless orphans-to convey their sense of textual poverty and national backwardness. The combination of a radically new subject matter and experimentation with diverse literary resources, indigenous and foreign, generated major innovations in narrative technique. Depicting poverty allowed writers to revolutionize the nascent forms of modern Chinese narrative, innovating strategies of representing the nation, the social other, time, and space, while problematizing their deployment of squalor for aesthetic purposes. This book examines why Russian literature, itself long preoccupied with a problem of belatedness vis-a-vis Western Europe, occupied a privileged place for Chinese intellectuals of this era. Comparing Chinese fiction about poverty to Russian intertexts by Gogol, Andreev, Chekhov, Turgenev, and others, the book shows how Chinese writers drew and innovated upon themes (such as madness or human animality) and formal elements (such as metonymy). Keru Cai's multi-scalar approach emphasizing close textual analysis situates modern Chinese realism in the trans-Eurasian axis of world literature.
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Fin-De-Sia*Cle Russia And Chinese Aesthetics - The Other Is The Universal

by Jinyi Chu

~~71,54€~~ 64,39€ 10% OFF

 Many are familiar with European modernists' interest in Chinese art and poetry, however less well known is that Russian literature and art at the turn of 20th century also flourished in a sustained dialogue with China. In Fin-de-siA*cle Russia and Chinese Aesthetics, Jinyi Chu reconsiders the place of Russia in the genealogy of global modernism by exploring the enduring impact of China on pre-revolutionary Russian culture. This book argues that fin-de-siA*cle Russian ideas about increasing global cultural and socioeconomic interconnectedness emerged from their unsettling encounters with China. Drawing on literary texts, paintings, advertisements, official documents, and archival work in Russia, China, France, and the United States, Chu reconstructs surprising stories about cultural interactions. From Innokenty Annensky's encounter with a Tibetan monk in Paris, Aleksei Remizov's adaptations of Chinese ghost stories, and Lev Tolstoy's translations of the Daoist canon, to Ilya Mashkov's fauvist painting of a Chinese fairy, this book presents a new cultural history of fin-de-siA*cle Russia in relation to the East. Fin-de-siA*cle Russia and Chinese Aesthetics casts new light on the intricate relationships between geopolitics and transnational aesthetics. It moves beyond the idea that Russian literary and artistic representations of China were simply manifestations of Russia's imperial ideology and Eurasian cultural identity. Instead, Chu shows that literature and art actively renegotiate and destabilize the preconceived world order at a time of intensifying geopolitical and cultural transformation when China shifted from Russia's rival in Inner Asia to a target in the competition of global imperialist powers.
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Fin-De-Siecle Russia And Chinese Aesthetics - The Other Is The Universal

by Jinyi Chu

~~71,54€~~ 64,39€ 10% OFF

 Many are familiar with European modernists' interest in Chinese art and poetry, however less well known is that Russian literature and art at the turn of 20th century also flourished in a sustained dialogue with China. In Fin-de-siecle Russia and Chinese Aesthetics, Jinyi Chu reconsiders the place of Russia in the genealogy of global modernism by exploring the enduring impact of China on pre-revolutionary Russian culture. This book argues that fin-de-siecle Russian ideas about increasing global cultural and socioeconomic interconnectedness emerged from their unsettling encounters with China. Drawing on literary texts, paintings, advertisements, official documents, and archival work in Russia, China, France, and the United States, Chu reconstructs surprising stories about cultural interactions. From Innokenty Annensky's encounter with a Tibetan monk in Paris, Aleksei Remizov's adaptations of Chinese ghost stories, and Lev Tolstoy's translations of the Daoist canon, to Ilya Mashkov's fauvist painting of a Chinese fairy, this book presents a new cultural history of fin-de-siecle Russia in relation to the East. Fin-de-siecle Russia and Chinese Aesthetics casts new light on the intricate relationships between geopolitics and transnational aesthetics. It moves beyond the idea that Russian literary and artistic representations of China were simply manifestations of Russia's imperial ideology and Eurasian cultural identity. Instead, Chu shows that literature and art actively renegotiate and destabilize the preconceived world order at a time of intensifying geopolitical and cultural transformation when China shifted from Russia's rival in Inner Asia to a target in the competition of global imperialist powers.
Optimism, Literature, And Culture In American Capitalism And Chinese Socialism

by Wendy (Professor Emeritus, East Asian Languages And Literatures, University Of Oregon) Larson

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 This book examines the similarity between capitalism and socialism over the twentieth century as both systems found ways to encourage happiness and optimism in their citizens. Comparing radically different novels, it brings diverse social contexts and histories together, tracing an underlying likeness.
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Poverty In Modern Chinese Realism - From Russia, With Squalor

by Keru (Lecturer In Chinese Studies, School Of Modern Languages, Lecturer In Chinese Studies, School Of Modern Languages, University Of St Andrews) Cai

~~118,97€~~ 107,07€ 10% OFF

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 Poverty in Modern Chinese Realism shows how early twentieth-century Chinese writers drew upon Russian realist fiction to develop new types of literature in China. They used elements found in Russian fiction by Gogol, Chekhov, Gorky, and others, in order to portray and remedy the poverty and backwardness they felt were holding China back.
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Fin-De-Siecle Russia And Chinese Aesthetics - The Other Is The Universal

by Jinyi (Assistant Professor Of Slavic Languages And Literatures, Assistant Professor Of Slavic Languages And Literatures, Yale University) Chu

~~109,50€~~ 98,55€ 10% OFF

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 This book presents a new cultural history of fin-de-siÃ¨cle Russia in relation to the East. Drawing on literary texts, paintings, advertisements, official documents, and archival work, it reconsiders the place of Russia in the genealogy of global modernism by exploring the enduring impact of China on pre-revolutionary Russian culture.
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Music, Mind, And Language In Chinese Poetry And Performance - The Voice Extended

by Casey Schoenberger

~~88,76€~~ 79,88€ 10% OFF

 This innovative study introduces the rhythms, melodies, language, and organization of traditional Chinese poetry and vocal arts. Using insights from cognitive neuroscience, digital humanities, musicology, and linguistics, Casey Schoenberger offers new perspectives on a wide range of issues in the field.
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Music, Mind, And Language In Chinese Poetry And Performance - The Voice Extended

by Casey Schoenberger

~~82,14€~~ 73,93€ 10% OFF

 This innovative study introduces the rhythms, melodies, language, and organization of traditional Chinese poetry and vocal arts. Using insights from cognitive neuroscience, digital humanities, musicology, and linguistics, Casey Schoenberger offers new perspectives on a wide range of issues in the field.
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Music, Mind, And Language In Chinese Poetry And Performance - The Voice Extended

~~120,32€~~ 108,29€ 10% OFF

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 This innovative study introduces the rhythms, melodies, language, and organization of traditional Chinese poetry and vocal arts. Using insights from cognitive neuroscience, digital humanities, musicology, and linguistics, Casey Schoenberger offers new perspectives on a wide range of issues in the field.
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Russian Kurosawa - Transnational Cinema, Or The Art Of Speaking Differently

by Olga V. Solovieva

80,81€ + 10% CARD

 Offers a new historical and thematic perspective on the work of the renowned Japanese director Akira Kurosawa through a detailed discussion of the four films he made based on Russian sources.
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Russian Kurosawa - Transnational Cinema, Or The Art Of Speaking Differently

by Olga V. Solovieva

80,81€ + 10% CARD

 Offers a new historical and thematic perspective on the work of the renowned Japanese director Akira Kurosawa through a detailed discussion of the four films he made based on Russian sources.
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Translating Early Modern China - Illegible Cities

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 A volume on translation and language in China from the fifteenth to mid-nineteenth centuries. It uses fictional narrative to discuss translators who worked between Chinese and (mostly) non-European languages and studies dictionaries, language primers, grammars, poetry collections, and conversation manuals.
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The Russian Kurosawa - Transnational Cinema, Or The Art Of Speaking Differently

by Olga V. (Assistant Professor, Department Of Comparative Literature, University Of Chicago) Solovieva

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 Offers a new historical and thematic perspective on the work of the renowned Japanese director Akira Kurosawa through a detailed discussion of the four films he made based on Russian sources.
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Diasporic Poetics - Asian Writing In The United States, Canada, And Australia

by Timothy Yu

74,19€ + 10% CARD

 Studies Asian American, Asian Canadian, and Asian Australian writing to establish what 'diasporic poetics' might be held in common.
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Diasporic Poetics - Asian Writing In The United States, Canada, And Australia

by Timothy Yu

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 Studies Asian American, Asian Canadian, and Asian Australian writing to establish what 'diasporic poetics' might be held in common.
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Diasporic Poetics - Asian Writing In The United States, Canada, And Australia

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 Studies Asian American, Asian Canadian, and Asian Australian writing to establish what 'diasporic poetics' might be held in common.
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Translating Early Modern China - Illegible Cities

by Carla Nappi

34,44€ + 10% CARD

 A volume on translation and language in China from the fifteenth to mid-nineteenth centuries. It uses fictional narrative to discuss translators who worked between Chinese and (mostly) non-European languages and studies dictionaries, language primers, grammars, poetry collections, and conversation manuals.
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Translating Early Modern China - Illegible Cities

by Carla Nappi

34,44€ + 10% CARD

 A volume on translation and language in China from the fifteenth to mid-nineteenth centuries. It uses fictional narrative to discuss translators who worked between Chinese and (mostly) non-European languages and studies dictionaries, language primers, grammars, poetry collections, and conversation manuals.
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Translation As Citation - Zhuangzi Inside Out

by Haun Saussy

84,79€ + 10% CARD

 The book looks at translation from many angles: it explores how translations change the languages in which they occur, how works introduced from other languages become part of the consciousness of native speakers, what strategies translators must use to secure acceptance for foreign works, and the history of translation in China.
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Translation As Citation - Zhuangzi Inside Out

by Haun Saussy

84,79€ + 10% CARD

 The book looks at translation from many angles: it explores how translations change the languages in which they occur, how works introduced from other languages become part of the consciousness of native speakers, what strategies translators must use to secure acceptance for foreign works, and the history of translation in China.
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Age Of Silver - The Rise Of The Novel East And West

by Ning Ma

80,81€ + 10% CARD

 The Age of Silver considers how commerce fueled the emergence of the novel around the globe, examining the evolution of epochal works of national literature from Don Quixote in 1605 to Robinson Crusoe in 1719.
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Nation And Aesthetics - On Kant And Freud

by Kojin Karatani

76,84€ + 10% CARD

 Nation and Aesthetics shows curious connections between nationalism and aesthetics through examining various fields such as art, language, and religion. This connection is not accidental, but inherent. Nation connects capitalism and the state, thus creating the problematic modern social formation of capital-nation-state.
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Age Of Silver - The Rise Of The Novel East And West

by Ning Ma

80,81€ + 10% CARD

 The Age of Silver considers how commerce fueled the emergence of the novel around the globe, examining the evolution of epochal works of national literature from Don Quixote in 1605 to Robinson Crusoe in 1719.
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