Occidentalism A Theory of Counter-Discourse in Post-Mao China

Name: Occidentalism A Theory of Counter-Discourse in Post-Mao China
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ISBN: 9780195085792

ISBN-10: 0195085795

ISBN-13: 9780195085792

Edition: 1995

Authors: Xiaomei Chen

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Xiaomei Chen offers an insightful account of the unremittingly favorable depiction of Western culture and its negative characterization of Chinese culture in post-Mao China from 1978-1988. Chen examines the cultural and political interrelations between the East and West from a vantage point more complex than that accommodated by most current theories of Western imperialism and colonialism. Going beyond Edward Said's construction in Orientalism of cross-cultural appropriations as a defining facet of Western imperialism, Chen argues that the appropriation of Western discourse--what she calls "Occidentalism"--can have a politically and ideologically liberating effect on contemporary…

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List price: $195.00
Copyright year: 1995
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 9/7/1995
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 256
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.50" long x 0.87" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English



Introduction



Occidentalism as a Counter-Discourse: He shang Controversy



Occidentalist Theater: Shakespeare, Ibsen, and Brecht as Counter Others



"Misunderstanding" Western Modernism: The Menglong Movement



A Wildman Between the Orient and the Occident: Retro-Influence in Comparative Literary Studies



Wilder, Mei Lanfang, and Huang Zuolin: A "Suggestive Theater" Revisited



Fathers and Daughters in Early Modern Chinese Drama: On the Problematics of Occidentalism in Cross-Cultural/Gender Perspective


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