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The hypothetical mandarin : sympathy, modernity, and Chinese pain
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hayot, Eric, Author.
- Series:
- Modernist literature & culture.
- Modernist literature & culture The hypothetical mandarin
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sympathy--Moral and ethical aspects--History.
- Europe--Civilization--Chinese influences.
- China--In literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xii, 278 p.) : ill.
- Other Title:
- hypothetical mandarin
- Modernist literature & culture
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2009.
- New York, New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Through readings of novels, medical case studies, travelers' reports, photographs, and paintings, this book shows that in the West the connection between sympathy and humanity, and indeed between sympathy and reality, has tended to refract with a remarkable frequency through the lens called 'China.'
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- OCLC:
- 823843990
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