| Description |
1 online resource (x, 271 pages) |
| Series |
Ideas, history, and modern China, 1875-9394 ; v. 3 |
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Ideas, history, and modern China ; v. 3.
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| Contents |
Introduction: re-discovering Lin Yutang in the post-Mao era -- Chinese modernity: nationalism, imperialism, and the liberal cosmopolitan alternative -- Enlightenment and national salvation: the politics of a liberal nationalist -- "Little critic:" "returned" professionals and the cosmopolitan modern -- A cross-cultural aesthetics of life: translating "xingling" into "self-expression," "xianshi" into "leisure" and "humor" into "youmo" -- Oriental other: the business of translating Chinese and American cultures -- Cosmopolitan difference: critique of imperialism and debating "Chinahands" -- Conclusion: what a liberal cosmopolitan alternative means for contemporary Chinese intellectual dilemma -- Appendix. Chronology of Lin Yutang |
| Summary |
Chinese modernity discourses have been dominated by nationalism and revolutionary radicalism in much of the 20th century, but liberal cosmopolitanism has always been an important force in modern Chinese intellectuality, though a much neglected topic in modern Chinese studies. This book is a cross-cultural critique on the problem of the liberal cosmopolitan in modern Chinese intellectuality in light of Lin Yutang's literary and cultural practices across China and America. It includes comparative reference to other discourses of major literary and intellectual figures such as Zhang Zhidong, Liang Qichao, Gu Hongming, Hu Shi, Lu Xun, Zhou Zuoren, Pearl S. Buck, Agnes Smedley and Edgar Snow. It also demonstrates that a liberal cosmopolitan road, which suggests a middling Chinese modernity, is both possible and desirable |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Lin, Yutang, 1895-1976 -- Criticism and interpretation
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Lin, Yutang, 1895-1976 -- Political and social views
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| SUBJECT |
Lin, Yutang, 1895-1976 fast |
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Cosmopolitanism -- China -- History
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Asian -- General.
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Cosmopolitanism
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Intellectual life
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Political and social views
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China -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85024144
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| Subject |
China
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9789004192140 |
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900419214X |
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