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Cross-Cultural Readings of Chineseness

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The contributors offer interpretive readings of a film, a work of plastic art, and an essay, all products of contemporary China. The works are "Chinese" not just because they are by Chinese artists...
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The contributors offer interpretive readings of a film, a work of plastic art, and an essay, all products of contemporary China. The works are "Chinese" not just because they are by Chinese artists and writers and "from China" but also because they bear witness to cultural and intellectual imaginations both by the Chinese themselves and about China in an era of border-crossing. They are part of an interactive reconstruction of the meaning of "Chineseness" in our time.
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Price: $20.00
Pages: 170
Publisher: Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley
Imprint: Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley
Series: China Research Monograph
Publication Date: 01 January 2000
Trim Size: 9.00 X 6.00 in
ISBN: 9781557290649
Format: Paperback
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Wen-hsin Yeh is professor of history at the University of California, Berkeley. She has served as the director of the Institute of East Asian Studies and the chair of the Center for Chinese Studies at Berkeley. She has edited and contributed to many IEAS publications, including Mobile Subjects; Mobile Horizons; History in Images; Cities in Motion; Empire, Nation, and Beyond; Cross-Cultural Readings of Chineseness; Landscape, Culture, and Space in Chinese Society; and Shanghai Sojourners. Education: B.A., History, National Taiwan University; M.A., History, University of Southern California; Ph.D., History, University of California, Berkeley

Acknowledgments – vii

Introduction –1
Wen-hsin Yeh

1. The Seductions of Homecoming: Place, Authenticity, and Chen Kaige's Temptress Moon –8
    Rey Chow

2. Duanwu Goes Home: Chen Kaige's Temptress Moon and the Politics of Homecoming – 27
    Wendy Larson

3. Reading the sky –53
    Stanley K. Abe

4. Pun Intended: A Response to Stanley Abe, "Reading the Sky" – 80
    Patricia Berger

5. Chinese postmodernism and the cultural politics of modern Chinese poetry –100
    Michelle Yeh

6. Postmodernism in China: A Sketch and Some Queries –128
    Haun Saussy

Contributors – 159