The Chinese Chameleon

Author : Zheng Yangwen 鄭揚文
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2014-09-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781443866729

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The Chinese Chameleon Revisited by Zheng Yangwen 鄭揚文 Pdf

By examining how the Middle Kingdom has been portrayed by foreigners and the Chinese themselves, this volume advances a new perspective in our reading and interpretation of the Chinese past by placing these “producers” and “presenters” of China in the spotlight. The chapters probe how these figures produced or presented the country, cross-examining their backgrounds and circumstances. Their gaze upon the Middle Kingdom was dictated by religious and political conviction, but also particularly by the consumers of that gaze. Like invisible hands, “producers” and “consumers” of China continue to constrain representations of the country, looming larger than the literary, artistic or journalistic works they produce. This volume also addresses scholars of Europe and America who have overlooked what Western writers on China reveal about their own contexts – which is indeed often more than they reveal about their ostensible subject. As such, the Middle Kingdom serves as a convenient mirror to reflect European and American anxieties and ambitions.

Author : Yangwen Zheng
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:856803556

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Chinese Chameleon Revisited by Yangwen Zheng Pdf

Author : Raymond Dawson
Publisher : London ; New York [etc.] : Oxford U.P
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : China
ISBN : UOM:39015054063436

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The Chinese Chameleon by Raymond Dawson Pdf

Author : Yusuke Yonezu
Publisher : Astra Publishing House
Page : 14 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2014-04-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9789888240593

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Rainbow Chameleon by Yusuke Yonezu Pdf

An interactive spin-the-wheel and pull-the-tab book all about color. This adorable board book is filled with bright colors and interactive surprises for little hands. Will the rainbow chameleon blend in, or stand out? Spin the wheel and pull the tabs of this sturdy book to change the chameleon’s colors. Rainbow Chameleon changes colors in order to hide from a snake, a wolf, and a crocodile. But sometimes he also has to change color in order to be noticed—especially when a new friend who he wants to impress enters the picture. This playful, hands-on journey features color dials and pull-tabs perfect for toddlers. The beautiful, lively illustrations and engaging story make for a book that kids will want to read again and again.

Author : Donald R. Brown
Publisher : LifeRich Publishing
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2016-09-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781489708489

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The Chameleon’S Shadow by Donald R. Brown Pdf

Two buddies met in army training, eventually serving in Vietnam together. This adventuresome duo through their Vietnam experiences together form a friendship that continues back in the States. Though they both forge ahead in wildly different careers, they find many reasons to use each others talents. Dr Bruce Conwell (Brew) is serving a large church in Still Acres, Iowa, while Chip McIntosh becomes a wealthy businessman with a private jet at his disposal. Adventures precipitated by their old friend, Nancy Springs, a CIA agent, land them in the waters around Gitmo while later the Arch in St. Louis is a target. All the while Brews church is unaware of his entanglement with Chip. Then there is Bulldog, a disreputable reporter, mysteriously bugging this pastor at odd times and places.

Author : Dana Zartner
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780199362103

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Courts, Codes, and Custom by Dana Zartner Pdf

This text explores the role of legal tradition in shaping state policy toward international human rights and environmental law. Examining the institutional and cultural characteristics within a state's legal tradition across ten case studies, the book shows the importance of domestic legal factors to understanding state policy toward international law.

Author : Peter Monteath,Matthew P. Fitzpatrick
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2019-07-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9780429753459

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Colonialism, China and the Chinese by Peter Monteath,Matthew P. Fitzpatrick Pdf

This book explores the place of China and the Chinese during the age of imperialism. Focusing not only on the state but also on the vitality of Chinese culture and the Chinese diaspora, it examines the seeming contradictions of a period in which China came under immense pressure from imperial expansion while remaining a major political, cultural and demographic force in its own right. Where histories of China commonly highlight episodes of conflict and subjugation in China’s relations with the West, the contributions to this volume explore the complex spaces where empires and their peoples did not merely collide but also became entangled.

Author : Lung-Kee Sun
Publisher : M.E. Sharpe
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 076560826X

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The Chinese National Character by Lung-Kee Sun Pdf

This unique survey of the evolution of the modern Chinese national character incorporates a rich blend of history and theory as well as nation, gender, and film studies. It begins with the dawn of the concept of "nation" in China at the end of the Imperial period, and follows its development from early Republican China to the present People's Republic, drawing on themes of national identity, "Orientalness," racial evolution and purity, cultural and gender roles, regional animosities, historical impediments, and more. The book also takes up the changing American perceptions of Chinese personality development and gender, using materials from American popular culture.

Author : Yongnian Zheng
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 728 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2022-11-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000642391

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Civilization and the Chinese Body Politic by Yongnian Zheng Pdf

In this important and hugely ambitious book, one of the world’s leading political scientists working on China demonstrates how Western views of China are flawed because the long tradition of Western scholarship studying China views China from the Western philosophical and intellectual perspective rather than viewing China on its own terms through the lens of China’s own long-established and reputable philosophical and intellectual tradition. Providing a deep analysis of Western scholarship on China, including work from Leibniz to Marx to Weber and then to Wittfogel, and a thorough account of the evolution of China’s own thinking about governance as expressed in the practices of successive Chinese dynasties, the book goes on to examine how the current Chinese body politic fits with and is the natural outcome of China’s own long, well-thought-through and well-practiced intellectual consideration of what the nature of civilized governance should be. By focusing on philosophical and intellectual approaches rather than on theoretical or methodological ones, the book shows how the huge and increasing disconnect between non-Chinese views of China and Chinese ones has come about.

Author : K. Kuah-Pearce,A. Davidson
Publisher : Springer
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2008-01-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780230591622

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At Home in the Chinese Diaspora by K. Kuah-Pearce,A. Davidson Pdf

This book explores how memories are used to re-establish a sense of belonging, analyzing the relationships between migrants' adjustment, assimilation and re-membering home. It considers memories as social expressions as well as the tensions and conflicts in representing and renegotiating memories in literature and cinema.

Author : Mingjun Lu
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2016-03-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317038498

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The Chinese Impact upon English Renaissance Literature by Mingjun Lu Pdf

The Chinese Impact upon English Renaissance Literature examines how English writers responded to the cultural shock caused by the first substantial encounter between China and Western Europe. Author Mingjun Lu explores how Donne and Milton came to be aware of England’s participation in ’the race for the Far East’ launched by Spain and Portugal, and how this new global awareness shaped their conceptions of cultural pluralism. Drawing on globalization theory, a framework that proves useful to help us rethink the literary world of Renaissance England in terms of global maritime networks, Lu proposes the concept of ’liberal cosmopolitanism’ to study early modern English engagement with the other. The advanced culture of the Chinese, Lu argues, inculcated in Donne and Milton a respect for difference and a cosmopolitan curiosity that ultimately led both authors to reflect in profound and previously unexamined ways upon their Eurocentric and monotheistic assumptions. The liberal cosmopolitan model not only opens Renaissance literary texts to globalization theory but also initiates a new way of thinking about the early modern encounter with the other beyond the conventional colonial/postcolonial, nationalist, and Orientalist frameworks. By pushing East-West contact back to the period in 1570s-1670s, Lu’s work uncovers some hitherto unrecognized Chinese elements in Western culture and their shaping influence upon English literary imagination.

Author : Jeffrey Crean
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2023-12-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350233966

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The Fear of Chinese Power by Jeffrey Crean Pdf

The real and potential power of China, the world's most populous nation, has long been seen as a threat by its smaller neighbors and global powers alike. The Fear of Chinese Power provides a history of this perceived threat from the 1880s to the present day, and offers rich historical context to an enduring and current concern. Focusing on the United States, but also exploring perceptions from Britain, Germany, the Soviet Union and Japan, this book asks why these fears exist and shows how they have played out on both a strategic, diplomatic level, and in the public sphere. Taking a chronological approach, the chapters explore themes such as western opposition to Chinese immigration, international views of China's new republic, hopes of friendship during the rule of Chiang Kai-Shek, the Korean and Cold Wars, Communist China's economic growth, the Chinese in popular culture and China as a modern global power. Taking economic, military and cultural vantage points into account, The Fear of Chinese Power explains why a powerful China has been a mainstay of the western imagination since the 19th century, and reveals a history which has shaped international perceptions of China to the present day.

Author : Hugh Trevor-Roper
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2020-02-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350136038

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The China Journals by Hugh Trevor-Roper Pdf

These private journals, made available here for the first time, record Hugh Trevor-Roper's visit to the People's Republic of China in the autumn of 1965, shortly before the outbreak of the Cultural Revolution, and describe the controversial aftermath of his journey on his return to England. The visit was a catalogue of frustrations, which he relates with the verve and irony of a master narrator who relished the human comedy. His efforts to meet the real life and mind of China, in whose history and politics he had long been interested, were blocked at every turn by the resources of state propaganda and the claustrophobic attention of sullen Party guides. The visit was arranged by the London-based Society for Anglo-Chinese Understanding, which was ostensibly committed to the impartial interchange of culture and ideas. It proved to be run by a Communist claque whose ruthless methods of control outwitted the well-connected membership. Back in England, and with help from MI5, he resolved to get to the bottom of the society's affairs. His investigations provoked a tumultuous public row which Trevor-Roper, no shirker of controversy, zestfully traces in these pages. Through the book, which closes with an account of his visit to Taiwan and South-East Asia in 1967, there run the wisdom of historical perspective that he brought to contemporary events and his lifelong commitment to the defence of liberal values and practices against their ideological adversaries.

Author : Arif Dirlik
Publisher : The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2011-11-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9789629964740

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Culture & History of Postrevolutionary China by Arif Dirlik Pdf

The essays in this volume grew from a series of talks delivered in late 2010 as the Liang Qichao Memorial Lectures at the Academy of National Learning (Guoxue yuan) of Tsinghua University, Beijing. Offering critical perspectives on a number of ideological issues that have figured prominently in Chinese intellectual discourse since the beginning of the socalled "reform and opening" (gaige kaifang) in the late 1970s, these essays range widely in subject matter, from Marxist historiography to sociology and anthropology in China to guoxue/national studies. Together they are conceived as different windows into a basic problem: the deployment of culture and history in postrevolutionary Chinese thought. Dirlik touches on a number of themes, including the repudiation of the revolutionary past after 1978, which has led to a rise of cultural nationalism. He further places these developments within a global context, ultimately making a case methodologically for "worlding' China: bringing China into the world, and the world into China.

Author : Irene Cheng,Charles L Davis,Mabel O Wilson
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2020-05-26
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780822987413

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Race and Modern Architecture by Irene Cheng,Charles L Davis,Mabel O Wilson Pdf

Although race—a concept of human difference that establishes hierarchies of power and domination—has played a critical role in the development of modern architectural discourse and practice since the Enlightenment, its influence on the discipline remains largely underexplored. This volume offers a welcome and long-awaited intervention for the field by shining a spotlight on constructions of race and their impact on architecture and theory in Europe and North America and across various global contexts since the eighteenth century. Challenging us to write race back into architectural history, contributors confront how racial thinking has intimately shaped some of the key concepts of modern architecture and culture over time, including freedom, revolution, character, national and indigenous style, progress, hybridity, climate, representation, and radicalism. By analyzing how architecture has intersected with histories of slavery, colonialism, and inequality—from eighteenth-century neoclassical governmental buildings to present-day housing projects for immigrants—Race and Modern Architecture challenges, complicates, and revises the standard association of modern architecture with a universal project of emancipation and progress.