Xiaobing Tang: 3 books
Chinese Modern
The Heroic and the Quotidian
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2000
Chinese Modern examines crucial episodes in the creation of Chinese modernity during the turbulent twentieth century. Analyzing a rich array of literary, visual, theatrical, and cinematic texts, Xiaobing Tang portrays the cultural transformation of China from the early 1900s through the founding of...
Visual Culture in Contemporary China
Paradigms and Shifts
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2015
Exploring a wealth of images ranging from woodblock prints to oil paintings, this beautifully illustrated full-color study takes up key elements of the visual culture produced in the People's Republic of China from its founding in 1949 to the present day. In a challenge to prevailing perceptions,...
Global Space and the Nationalist Discourse of Modernity
The Historical Thinking of Liang Qichao
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 1996
This book reexamines the historical thinking of Liang Qichao (1873-1929), one of the few modern Chinese thinkers and cultural critics whose appreciation of the question of modernity was based on first-hand experience of the world space in which China had to function as a nation-state. It seeks to...