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Fin-de-siècle Russia and Chinese aesthetics : the other is the universal / Jinyi Chu.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Chu, Jinyi, author.
- Series:
- Global Asias.
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Global Asias
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Russia--History--Nicholas II, 1894-1917.
- Russia.
- Russia--Foreign relations--China.
- China--Foreign relations--Russia.
- China.
- Russia--Civilization--Chinese influences.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource : illustrations.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2024]
- Summary:
- This text presents a new cultural history of fin-de-siècle Russia in relation to the East. Drawing on literary texts, paintings, advertisements, official documents, and archival work, it reconsiders the place of Russia in the genealogy of global modernism by exploring the enduring impact of China on pre-revolutionary Russian culture.
- Contents:
- 1. Introduction
- 2. The Universal Truth
- 3. Meta-exoticism
- 4. Russian Cathays
- 5. The Transnational Fantastic
- 6. Epilogue: The Untranslatable is the Universal.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource and publisher information; title from PDF title page (viewed on August 13, 2024).
- ISBN:
- 9780198920427
- 0198920423
- 9780198920403
- 0198920407
- OCLC:
- 1452234725
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