Great walls of discourse and other adventures in cultural China / Haun Saussy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Saussy, Haun, 1960-

Series:

Harvard East Asian monographs ; 212.

Harvard East Asian monographs ; 212

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

China--Civilization.

China.

Civilization.

China--Historiography.

Historiography.

Physical Description:

289 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Asia Center : Distributed by Harvard University Press, [2001]

Summary:

"China" and "the West," "us" and "them," the "subject" and the "non-subject" --these and other dualisms furnish China watchers, both inside and outside China, with a pervasive, ready-made set of definitions immune to empirical disproof. But what does this language of essential difference accomplish? The essays in this book are an attempt to cut short the recitation of differences and to answer this question.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [251]-279) and index.

ISBN:

0674008596

067400860X

OCLC:

47716403