Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction -- Works Cited -- Part I: Regional Formations -- Of Capitalism and Critique: 'Af-Pak' Fiction in the Wake of 9/11 -- Poetic Affect and Ideological Effect: The Wasted Vigil -- Terms of Disengagement: The Reluct…
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The Invention of China in Early Modern England describes how several different English communities became aware of China. It begins by describing how early modern intellectuals used the utopian ideal of China to license all kinds of progressive innovation before chronicling how …
At the heart of this book is a spectral theory of world literature that draws on Edward Said, Aamir Mufti, Jacques Derrida and world-systems theory to assess how the field produces local literature as an "other" that haunts its universalising, assimilative imperative with the fo…
"This book draws on Edward Said, Aamir Mufti, Jacques Derrida, and world-systems theory to address the institutionalized construct of 'world literature' from its origins in Goethe and Marx to the present day. It argues that through its history, this construct has served to incor…
Myths of the creation of Chinese
by Tian, Zhaoyuan, Ye, Shuxian, Qian, Hang
fromChina Classics International
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Drawing on the sun, moon, dragon, phoenix, Nuwa, Yandi, Huangdi and other widely circulated cultural elements as examples, this book addresses the development and evolution of the most representative Chinese creation myths regarding nature, totems, ancestors and saints. The book…
Drawing on the sun, moon, dragon, phoenix, Nuwa, Yandi, Huangdi and other widely circulated cultural elements as examples, this book addresses the development and evolution of the most representative Chinese creation myths regarding nature, totems, ancestors and saints. The book…
