Great Walls of Discourse and Other Adventures in Cultural China / Haun Saussy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Saussy, Haun, 1960- author.

Series:

Harvard East Asian monographs ; 212.

Harvard University Asia Center E-Book Collection ISBN: 9789004407077.

Harvard East Asian Monographs ; 212

Harvard University Asia Center E-Book Collection

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Civilization.

China--Civilization.

China.

China--Historiography.

Historiography.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

Leiden; Boston : BRILL, 2001.

System Details:

text file

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.

Contents:

Preliminary Material

Group Tours and Swimming with Schools

In the Workshop of Equivalences: Translation, Institutions, and Media in the Jesuit Re-formation of China

The Prestige of Writing: Wen, Letter, Picture, Image, Ideography

Always Multiple Translation: Or, How the Chinese Language Lost Its Grammar

No Time Like the Present: The Category of Contemporaneity in Chinese Studies

Postmodernism in China: A Sketch and Some Queries

Outside the Parenthesis (Those People Were a Kind of Solution)

The Difficult Inch

Notes

Works Cited

Index

Harvard East Asian Monographs.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Great Walls of Discourse and Other Adventures in Cultural China,

ISBN:

9781684173723

9780674008601

OCLC:

604764214

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9781684173723 DOI

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