| Description |
1 online resource (xxxi, 170 pages) |
| Contents |
Abbreviations; Prologue; Introduction: "no better instrument": The Chinese Written Character as a Medium; 1. "Visible nature": Image, Photography, and the Apparition of China; 2. "Simply the form": Inscription, Phonography, and the Chinese Scene of Writing; 3. "To imitate the Chinese": Mimesis, Cinema, and the Age of Mechanical Reproduction; 4. "Shocks in China": History, Telegraphy, and the Crisis of Spirit; Works Cited; Index |
| Summary |
This work analyzes the collective significance of an array of figures of Chinese writing in Euro-American literature, showing how the ideograph becomes, in the modernist era, a prism through which to imagine the world in ethnographic and in technological terms |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Chinese language -- Writing.
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Modernism (Literature)
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TRAVEL -- Special Interest -- Literary.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- General.
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Chinese language -- Writing
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Literature
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Modernism (Literature)
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| SUBJECT |
China -- In literature.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85024204
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| Subject |
China
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780199741397 |
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0199741395 |
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9780195393828 |
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0195393821 |
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9780199866601 |
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0199866600 |
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