136 pp. January 2003
cloth, ISBN 978-0-8248-2680-2, $47.00
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Asia
China
history
sociology
literature |
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Chinas Unlimited: Making the Imaginaries of China and Chineseness
by Gregory B. Lee
Chinese Worlds
“Provocative and far-reaching in scope” —Journal of Asian Studies, November 2003
Mr. Wu the laundryman, the evil Fu Manchu, the sex maniac, the opium addict, the docile immigrant worker: These stereotypes applied to Chinese people stretch back to the Victorian era, yet resurface with regularity in today’s media. In China itself the way the Chinese perceive and project themselves and their ethnicity has evolved over recent years, with discordant and unofficial voices challenging normative ideas of Chinese identity. In order to understand the numerous ways of seeing and being Chinese, Chinas Unlimited analyzes Chinese literary and cultural texts, such as television soap serials, as well as popular cultural representations of the Chinese. For sale only in the U.S., its dependencies, Canada, and Mexico
Gregory B. Lee is professor of Chinese at Lyon.
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