Description: Occidentalism: A Theory of Counter-Discourse in Post-Mao China by Xiaomei Chen; Oxford University Press; 1995 Hard cover book with DJ. Like new. Clean. Spine and binding tight. Inside, no markings. Pages clean and crisp. DJ, in excellent condition with no edge wear. 5.75" x 9" ; 239 pages with index. 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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Subject Area: Literary Criticism, Political Science, Social Science, History
Publication Name: Occidentalism : a Theory of Counter-Discourse in Post-Mao China
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Item Length: 8.9 in
Subject: Asian / Chinese, Asia / China, Customs & Traditions, World / Asian
Publication Year: 1995
Type: Textbook
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Item Height: 0.8 in
Author: Xiaomei Chen
Educational Level: Adult & Further Education
Level: Advanced
Features: Dust Jacket
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Item Weight: 14.2 Oz
Item Width: 5.7 in
Number of Pages: 239 Pages
