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  • Celestial Empire

    The Emergence of Chinese Science Fiction

    by Nathaniel Isaacson ...
    How colonialism profoundly influenced the emergence of Chinese science fictionChallenging assumptions about science fiction's Western origins, Nathaniel Isaacson traces the development of the genre in China, from the late Qing Dynasty through the New Culture Movement. Through careful examination of a wide range of visual and print media—including historical accounts of the institutionalization of ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Chinese Science Fiction

    Concepts, Forms, and Histories

    Edited by Mingwei Song, Nathaniel Isaacson, Hua Li ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This volume brings together emerging approaches and addresses shifting paradigms in Chinese science fiction studies, offering a window on fan cultures, internet fiction, gender, eco-criticism, post-humanism and biomedical discourse. These studies present a “second wave” of Chinese sf studies, re-evaluating the canon of Chinese sf print and cinematic production, and expand the range of critical ... Read more

    $152.09 USD

  • Celestial Empire

    The Emergence of Chinese Science Fiction

    by Nathaniel Isaacson ...
    Series series Early Classics of Science Fiction
    Challenging assumptions about science fiction's Western origins, Nathaniel Isaacson traces the development of the genre in China, from the late Qing Dynasty through the New Culture Movement. Through careful examination of a wide range of visual and print media—including historical accounts of the institutionalization of science, pictorial representations of technological innovations, and a number ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

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  • The Oxford Handbook of Modern Chinese Literatures

    Edited by Carlos Rojas, Andrea Bachner ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    With over forty original essays, The Oxford Handbook of Modern Chinese Literatures offers an in-depth engagement with the current analytical methodologies and critical practices that are shaping the field in the twenty-first century. Divided into three sections--Structure, Taxonomy, and Methodology--the volume carefully moves across approaches, genres, and forms to address a rich range topics that ... Read more

    $134.09 USD

  • Manga and the Representation of Japanese History

    Edited by Roman Rosenbaum ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary Japan Series
    This edited collection explores how graphic art and in particular Japanese manga represent Japanese history.The articles explore the representation of history in manga from disciplines that include such diverse fields as literary studies, politics, history, cultural studies, linguistics, narratology, and semiotics. Despite this diversity of approaches all academics from these respective fields of ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • The Subplot

    What China Is Reading and Why It Matters

    by Megan Walsh ...
    What does contemporary China's diverse and exciting fiction tell us about its culture, and the relationship between art and politics?The Subplot takes us on a lively journey through a literary landscape like you’ve never seen before: a vast migrant-worker poetry movement, homoerotic romances by “rotten girls,” swaggering literary popstars, millionaire e-writers churning out the longest-ever novels ... Read more

    $10.69 USD

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  • Machine Decision Is Not Final

    China and the History and Future of Artificial Intelligence

    Edited by Benjamin H. Bratton, Anna Greenspan, Amy Ireland, Bogna Konior ...
    An interdisciplinary, cross-cultural collection that decenters familiar narratives to provide a fresh perspective on what artificial intelligence is today, and what it might become.Historians, media theorists, science-fiction writers, philosophers, and artists from China and elsewhere reexamine the nation’s intense engagement with AI, moving beyond the clichés that still dominate contemporary ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • The Columbia Companion to Modern Chinese Literature

    Edited by Kirk Denton ...
    The Columbia Companion to Modern Chinese Literature features more than fifty short essays on specific writers and literary trends from the Qing period (1895–1911) to the present. The volume opens with thematic essays on the politics and ethics of writing literary history, the formation of the canon, the relationship between language and form, the role of literary institutions and communities, the ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Why Fiction Matters in Contemporary China

    by David Der-wei Wang ...
    Series series The Mandel Lectures in the Humanities at Brandeis University
    Contemporary discussions of China tend to focus on politics and economics, giving Chinese culture little if any attention. Why Fiction Matters in Contemporary China offers a corrective, revealing the crucial role that fiction plays in helping contemporary Chinese citizens understand themselves and their nation. Where history fails to address the consequences of man-made and natural atrocities, ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • A History of Pain

    Trauma in Modern Chinese Literature and Film

    by Michael Berry ...
    Series series Global Chinese Culture
    The portrayal of historical atrocity in fiction, film, and popular culture can reveal much about the function of individual memory and the shifting status of national identity. In the context of Chinese culture, films such as Hou Hsiao-hsien's City of Sadness and Lou Ye's Summer Palace and novels such as Ye Zhaoyan's Nanjing 1937: A Love Story and Wang Xiaobo's The Golden Age collectively ... Read more

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  • Martial Arts Cinema and Hong Kong Modernity

    by Hong Kong University Press ...
    At the core of Martial Arts Cinema and Hong Kong Modernity: Aesthetics, Representation, Circulation is a fascinating paradox: the martial arts film, long regarded as a vehicle of Chinese cultural nationalism, can also be understood as a mass cultural expression of Hong Kong’s modern urban-industrial society. This important and popular genre, Man-Fung Yip argues, articulates the experiential ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Contemporary Chinese Novels in Translation since 1978

    Literary Voices from the Periphery

    by Yun Wu ...
    Series series China Perspectives
    This book aims to complement the traditional focus of translation studies, which has primarily centered on translating English into other languages. It presents a comprehensive analysis of the reverse translation trajectory, exploring the movement of Chinese literature into the core English literary domain.The book aims to explore the ideological and sociological dynamics that underlie the ... Read more

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