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Record Nr.

UNINA9910787031703321

Titolo

Modernisation of Chinese culture : continuity and change / / edited by Jana S. Rošker and Nataša Vampelj Suhadolnik

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom : , : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, , 2013

ISBN

1-4438-6772-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (430 p.)

Disciplina

306.0951

Soggetti

Chinese literature - 20th century - History and criticism

Chinese literature - 21st century - History and criticism

China Intellectual life 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

TABLE OF CONTENTS; LIST OF TABLES; LIST OF FIGURES; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; INTRODUCTION; INTELLECTUAL HISTORY; CHAPTER ONE; CHAPTER TWO; CHAPTER THREE; INSTITUTIONAL TRANSFORMATION; CHAPTER FOUR; CHAPTER FIVE; HISTORY OF MODERN CHINESE LITERATURE; CHAPTER SIX; CHAPTER SEVEN; CHAPTER EIGHT; FROM MODERN TO CONTEMPORARY PROSE; CHAPTER NINE; CHAPTER TEN; CHAPTER ELEVEN; ART AND PUBLIC SPACE; CHAPTER TWELVE; CHAPTER THIRTEEN; DIALOGUES WITH THE WEST IN CHINESE ACADEMIC WORLD; CHAPTER FOURTEEN; CHAPTER FIFTEEN; ECONOMY, ECOLOGY, AND SOCIAL CHANGE; CHAPTER SIXTEEN; CHAPTER SEVENTEEN; CHAPTER EIGHTEEN

CONTRIBUTORSINDEX

Sommario/riassunto

The editors are grateful to the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for its generous support of their research work which enabled them to publish the present book. The present book carefully maps the Chinese modernisation discourse, highlighting its relationship to other, similar discourses, and situating it within historical and theoretical contexts. In contrast to the majority of recent discussions of a ""Chinese development model"" that tend to focus more on institutional then cultural factors, and...