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China and the West: Encounters with the Other in Culture, Arts, Politics and Everyday Life Unabridged Edition
Author(s): Lili Hernandez
- Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
- Publication Date: 1 May 2012
- Edition: Unabridged
- Language: English
- Print length: 195 pages
- ISBN-10: 1443837806
- ISBN-13: 9781443837804
Book Description
The meeting point between China and the West is a striking subject in a wide range of disciplines. This collection scrutinises how China and the West interact in aspects of culture, arts, politics and everyday life. Within a complex web of actors, dimensions, technologies, spaces and social structures, cultural encounters are nevertheless problematic. China and the West come together within the stream of a global world. The essays in this anthology analyse new and emerging dynamics that challenge authoritative views imposed on the other, while deconstructing traditional responses to otherness too. Bringing these essays together responds to a commitment to a critical assessment of the various shapes that such convergence takes within globalisation. China and the West: Encounters with the Other in Culture, Arts, Politics and Everyday Life will appeal to scholars and practitioners in communications, the visual arts, cultural studies, sociology, media studies, anthropology, literature and politics. The non-academic reader interested in the vibrant and emerging interface between China and the West will find this enlightening too.
Editorial Reviews
Review
‘The number of existing works on China and the West is not small, yet this volume did stand out in two significant respects. First of all, the context of this book is modern China rather than China from the 18th to early 20th century. Earlier works have tended to focus on this initial period of ‘encountering the other’ and have applied theories of colonialism as well as imperialism […] China and the West, however, presents encounters of the other in a social environment where concepts of globalization, post-colonialism and post-modernization are more applicable. Secondly, unlike much of the existing research on the subject, China and theWest invites us to view the subject through multi-various disciplinary lenses. […] The advantage of this structure means that the book will be able to reach a wider range of readers, especially those that are still seeking a way in to a better understanding of China’s encounters with the West in more modern times.’Mengyu LuoSocial Sciences Department, Loughborough UniversityJournal of the British Association for Chinese Studies, Vol. 2 (2013)
About the Author
Lili Hernández is a Lecturer in International Communications at the University of Nottingham, Ningbo, China. She is currently researching into notions of the outsider and creativity within everyday life in China.
