Description: Occidentalism: A Theory of Counter-Discourse in Post-Mao China, Xiaomei Chen Format Hardcover Published September 7, 1995 by Oxford University Press Used - Condition LIKE NEW 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 non-Western culture. Using China as a focus of her analysis, Chen examines a variety of cultural media, from Shakesperian drama, to Western modernist poetry, to contemporary Chinese television. She thus places sinology in the general context of Western theoretical discourses, such as Eurocentrism, postcolonialism, nationalism, modernism, feminism, and literary hermeneutics, showing that it has a vital role to play in the study of Orient and Occident and their now unavoidable symbiotic relationship. Occidentalism presents a new model of comparative literary and cultural studies that reenvisions cross-cultural appropriation.
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Book Title: Occidentalism: A Theory Of Counter-Discourse In Post-Mao China
Number of Pages: 256 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Occidentalism : a Theory of Counter-Discourse in Post-Mao China
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Item Height: 0.9 in
Publication Year: 1995
Subject: Asian / Chinese, Asia / China, Customs & Traditions, World / Asian
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 14 Oz
Author: Xiaomei Chen
Item Length: 8.5 in
Subject Area: Literary Criticism, Political Science, Social Science, History
Item Width: 5.7 in
Format: Hardcover
