Revolution of the heart : a genealogy of love in China, 1900-1950 / Haiyan Lee.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lee, Haiyan.

Series:

ACLS Humanities E-Book.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Chinese literature--History and criticism--Theory, etc.

Chinese literature.

Chinese literature--Philosophy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 364 p. )

Other Title:

Genealogy of love in China, 1900-1950

Place of Publication:

Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book is an engagingly written critical genealogy of the idea of "love" in modern Chinese literature, thought, and popular culture. It examines a wide range of texts, including literary, historical, philosophical, anthropological, and popular cultural genres from the late imperial period to the beginning of the socialist era. It traces the process by which love became an all-pervasive subject of representation and discourse, as well as a common language in which modern notions of self, gender, family, sexuality, and nation were imagined and contested. Winner of the Association for Asian Studies 2009 Joseph Levenson Book Prize for the best English-language academic book on post-1900 China

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

Introduction: What's Love Got to Do with It?

PART ONE. The Confucian Structure of Feeling

1. The Cult of Qing

2. Virtuous Sentiments

PART TWO. The Enlightenment Structure of Feeling

3. The Age of Romance

4. The Micropolitics of Love

5. The Historical Epistemology of Sex

PART THREE. The Revolutionary Structure of Feeling

6. The Problem of National Sympathy

7. Revolution of the Heart

Conclusion: The Intimate Conflicts of Modernity

Notes

Character List

References

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 337-352) and index.

ISBN:

0-8047-6807-2

1-4356-0890-9