Boundaries in China / edited by John Hay
- Bib ID:
- 2108865
- Format:
- Book
- Description:
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- London : Reaktion Books, 1994
- viii, 350 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 0948462388 (paperback)
- 094846237X
- Series:
- Critical views.
- Summary:
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Boundary making, a crucial element in human cultural creativity, links these essays exploring Chinese art and society. Traversing time and cultural category, individual expression and social construct, the authors demonstrate how a 'boundary' may exist simultaneously as barrier, threshold and interface. The essays range from the creation of the first political and bureaucratic boundaries in early China, to the dismantling of discursive boundaries in the post-Mao era. Spanning diverse subjects, moving between ancient funerary art and the tension between self and image in modern Peking Opera, they deftly explore the psychodynamics of Chinese society. All the authors in this book are established Sinologists. Boundaries in China will be stimulating reading for anyone interested to see how the seemingly tangential or peripheral can turn out to be of central concern in non-Western (and perhaps also Western) art and culture.
- Full contents:
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- Introduction / John Hay
- 1. Body, Space, Time and Bureaucracy: Boundary Creation and Control Mechanisms in Early China / Robin D. S. Yates
- 2. Beyond the 'Great Boundary': Funerary Narrative in the Cangshan Tomb / Wu Hung
- 3. The Chinese Poetic Canon and its Boundaries / Pauline Yu
- 4. Boundaries and Surfaces of Self and Desire in Yuan Painting / John Hay
- 5. The Suspension of Dynastic Time / Jonathan Hay
- 6. Lady-Scholars at the Door: The Practice of Gender Relations in Eighteenth-Century Suzhou / Dorothy Ko
- 7. The Chinese Opera Star: Roles and Identity / Isabelle Duchesne
- 8. 'Love Me, Master, Love Me, Son': A Cultural Other Pornographically Constructed in Time / Rey Chow
- 9. Who is Speaking Here? Discursive Boundaries and Representation in Post-Mao China / Ann Anagnost
- 10. Zhang Hongtu/Hongtu Zhang: An Interview / Jonathan Hay.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [337]-340) and index.
- Subject:
- Other authors/contributors:
- Hay, John, 1939-
- Copyright:
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- Publication date:
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