The Cambridge companion to modern Chinese culture / edited by Kam Louie.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Louie, Kam, editor.

Series:

Cambridge companions to culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

China--Civilization--1912-1949.

China.

China--Civilization--1949-.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xx, 400 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2008.

System Details:

Mode of Access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

At the start of the twenty-first century, China is poised to become a major global power. Understanding its culture is more important than ever before for western audiences, but for many, China remains a mysterious and exotic country. This Companion explains key aspects of modern Chinese culture without assuming prior knowledge of China or the Chinese language. The volume acknowledges the interconnected nature of the different cultural forms, from 'high culture' such as literature, religion and philosophy to more popular issues such as sport, cinema, performance and the internet. Each chapter is written by a world expert in the field. Invaluable for students of Chinese studies, this book includes a glossary of key terms, a chronology and a guide to further reading. For the interested reader or traveler, it reveals a dynamic, diverse and fascinating culture, many aspects of which are now elucidated in English for the first time.

Contents:

Defining modern Chinese culture / Kam Louie

Social and political developments : the making of the twentieth-century Chinese state / Peter Zarrow

Historical consciousness and national identity / Prasenjit Duara

Gender in modern Chinese culture / Harriet Evans

Ethnicity and Chinese identity : ethnographic insight and political positioning / William Jankowiak

Flag, flame and embers : diaspora cultures / Wang Gungwu

Modernizing Confucianism and 'new Confucianism' / Sor-Hoon Tan

Socialism in China : a historical overview / Arif Dirlik

Chinese religious traditions from 1900

2005 : an overview / Daniel L. Overmyer

Languages in a modernizing China / Ping Chen

The revolutionary tradition in modern Chinese literature / Charles Laughlin

The involutionary tradition in modern Chinese literature / Michel Hockx

Music and performing arts : tradition, reform and political and social relevance / Colin Mackerras

Revolutions in vision : Chinese art and the experience of modernity / David Clarke

Cinema : from foreign import to global brand / Chris Berry

Media boom and cyber culture : television and the Internet in China / Liu Kang

Physical culture, sports and the Olympics / Susan Brownell.

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ISBN:

9781139001861 (ebook)

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