Liberal cosmopolitan : Lin Yutang and middling Chinese modernity / by Qian Suoqiao
- Bib ID:
- 5282890
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Qian, Suoqiao
- Description:
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- Leiden ; Boston : Brill , 2011
- x, 271 p. ; 25 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 9789004192133
- 9004192131
- Series:
- Ideas, history, and modern China, 1875-9394 ; v. 3.
- Full contents:
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- Introduction: re-discovering Lin Yutang in the post-Mao era
- Chinese modernity: nationalism, imperialism, and the liberal cosmopolitan alternative
- Enlightenment and national salvation: the politics of a liberal nationalist
- "Little critic:" "returned" professionals and the cosmopolitan modern
- A cross-cultural aesthetics of life: translating "xingling" into "self-expression," "xianshi" into "leisure" and "humor" into "youmo"
- Oriental other: the business of translating Chinese and American cultures
- Cosmopolitan difference: critique of imperialism and debating "Chinahands"
- Conclusion: what a liberal cosmopolitan alternative means for contemporary Chinese intellectual dilemma
- Appendix. Chronology of Lin Yutang.
- Notes:
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- Formerly CIP.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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