Journal ArticleContemporary French and Francophone Studies · January 1, 2024
Chinese Postism refers to Chinese versions of poststructuralism, postmodernism and postcolonialism, three major western theoretical trends prefixed with “post.” Chinese Postism is largely retranslations of English translations (and interpretations) of Fren ...
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Journal ArticleCLCWeb - Comparative Literature and Culture · December 1, 2020
In his article, “The China Question of Western Theory,” Kang Liu formulates the China Question of western theory as both western critical frameworks to understand the rise of China, and how these critical frameworks present China not only as an object of s ...
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Journal ArticleModern Language Quarterly · September 1, 2018
AbstractThis essay takes Fredric Jameson and Chinese Jamesonism as a case in point to illustrate the Chinese anxiety of influence with Western theory and the battle between (Western) universalism and Chinese ...
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Journal ArticleCLCWeb - Comparative Literature and Culture · September 1, 2018
In his article, "Rethinking Critical Theory and Maoism," Kang Liu reviews the existing literature in English on the relationship of Critical Theory and Maoism and discusses the need to explore and reconstruct a genealogy of Critical Theory and Maoism withi ...
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Journal ArticleEuropean Review · May 2018
For the most part, modern China’s institutions and modes of knowledge have been shaped and predominantly influenced by the West. Since the modern Chinese knowledge system is an integral and inseparable part of that dominant western system, an imman ...
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Journal ArticleEuropean Review · May 2015
The essay discusses the public opinion surveys on the rise of China in the United States, Asia and Latin America since 2010, conducted by Shanghai Jiao Tong University and Duke University’s collaborative research team headed by the author. It exami ...
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Journal ArticleNeohelicon · March 2010
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The resurgence of revolutionary literature or Red Classics at the turn of the century is indicative of the cultural logic of the revolutionary hegemony during Mao and post-Mao China. Revolutionary hegemony served quite effectively to legitimate Ma ...
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Book · 2004
In this timely and provocative work, Liu Kang argues that globalization is not simply a new conceptual framework through which cultural change in China can be understood; it is a historical condition in which the country's gaige kaifang ... ...
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