Cambridge Companion to Modern Chinese Culture

by Kam Louie

Overview

At the start of the twenty-first century, China is poised to become a major global power. This Companion explains key aspects of modern Chinese culture without assuming prior knowledge of China or the Chinese language. Invaluable for students of Chinese studies, this book includes a glossary of key terms, a chronology and a guide to further reading. For the interested reader or traveller, it reveals a dynamic, diverse and fascinating culture, many aspects of which are now elucidated in English for the first time.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	2900521681901
Publication date:	06/05/2008
Pages:	424
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Kam Louie is Dean of the Arts Faculty at the University of Hong Kong.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations     ix
Notes on contributors     x
Chronology of major events     xiii
List of abbreviations     xxi
Defining modern Chinese culture   Kam Louie     1
Social and political developments: the making of the twentieth-century Chinese state   Peter Zarrow     20
Historical consciousness and national identity   Prasenjit Duara     46
Gender in modern Chinese culture   Harriet Evans     68
Ethnicity and Chinese identity: ethnographic insight and political positioning   William Jankowiak     91
Flag, flame and embers: diaspora cultures   Wang Gungwu     115
Modernizing Confucianism and 'new Confucianism'   Sor-Hoon Tan     135
Socialism in China: a historical overview   Arif Dirlik     155
Chinese religious traditions from 1900-2005: an overview   Daniel L. Overmyer     173
Languages in a modernizing China   Ping Chen     198
The revolutionary tradition in modern Chinese literature   Charles Laughlin     218
The involutionary tradition in modern Chinese literature   Michel Hockx     235
Music and performing arts: tradition, reform and political and socialrelevance   Colin Mackerras     253
Revolutions in vision: Chinese art and the experience of modernity   David Clarke     272
Cinema: from foreign import to global brand   Chris Berry     297
Media boom and cyber culture: television and the Internet in China   Liu Kang     318
Physical culture, sports and the Olympics   Susan Brownell     339
Appendix     361
Index     377

Editorial Reviews

"Highly recommended." - Choice

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