04151nam 2200781 450 991046446120332120200520144314.00-231-53630-510.7312/bach16452(CKB)3710000000078987(EBL)1603498(SSID)ssj0001082606(PQKBManifestationID)12450745(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001082606(PQKBWorkID)11097916(PQKB)10363177(StDuBDS)EDZ0001245703(MiAaPQ)EBC1603498(DE-B1597)458232(OCoLC)979577377(DE-B1597)9780231536301(Au-PeEL)EBL1603498(CaPaEBR)ebr10821378(CaONFJC)MIL563151(OCoLC)869641405(EXLCZ)99371000000007898720130515h20142014 uy| 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrBeyond sinology Chinese writing and the scripts of culture /Andrea BachnerNew York :Columbia University Press,[2014]©20141 online resource (297 p.)Global Chinese CultureGlobal Chinese cultureDescription based upon print version of record.0-231-16452-1 Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction: Script politics -- Corpographies: Death and the sinograph -- National calligraphies -- Iconographies: Poetics of visuality -- On (not) writing Chinese -- Sonographies: Muteness envy -- Sinographic glossolalia -- Allographies: Crypto-Chinese -- Graphic parasites -- Technographies: Radical design -- Under e(rasure) -- Conclusion: Beyond sinology.New communication and information technologies provide distinct challenges and possibilities for the Chinese script, which, unlike alphabetic or other phonetic scripts, relies on multiple signifying principles. In recent decades, this multiplicity has generated a rich corpus of reflection and experimentation in literature, film, visual and performance art, and design and architecture, within both China and different parts of the West.Approaching this history from a variety of alternative theoretical perspectives, Beyond Sinology reflects on the Chinese script to pinpoint the multiple connections between languages, scripts, and medial expressions and cultural and national identities. Through a complex study of intercultural representations, exchanges, and tensions, the text focuses on the concrete "scripting" of identity and alterity, advancing a new understanding of the links between identity and medium and a critique of articulations that rely on single, monolithic, and univocal definitions of writing.Chinese writing-with its history of divergent readings in Chinese and non-Chinese contexts, with its current reinvention in the age of new media and globalization-can teach us how to read and construct mediality and cultural identity in interculturally responsible ways and also how to scrutinize, critique, and yet appreciate and enjoy the powerful multi-medial creativity embodied in writing.Global Chinese CultureChinese languageWritingHistoryChinese charactersHistoryInscriptions, ChineseHistory and criticismChinese in literatureChinese in motion picturesMass media and languageChinaChinese in artElectronic books.Chinese languageWritingHistory.Chinese charactersHistory.Inscriptions, ChineseHistory and criticism.Chinese in literature.Chinese in motion pictures.Mass media and languageChinese in art.495.1/11Bachner Andrea955492MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910464461203321Beyond sinology2461171UNINA03995nam 2200961Ia 450 991079018570332120230124190239.00-520-94354-610.1525/9780520943544(CKB)2670000000162547(EBL)1609004(SSID)ssj0000628873(PQKBManifestationID)11433168(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000628873(PQKBWorkID)10712064(PQKB)11469009(StDuBDS)EDZ0000056083(MiAaPQ)EBC1609004(DE-B1597)520088(OCoLC)808600995(DE-B1597)9780520943544(Au-PeEL)EBL1609004(CaPaEBR)ebr10675740(OCoLC)870245540(EXLCZ)99267000000016254720080605d2009 ub 0engur|||||||||||txtccrWho is knowledgeable is strong[electronic resource] science, class, and the formation of modern Iranian society, 1900-1950 /Cyrus SchayeghBerkeley Univerity of California Pressc20091 online resource (353 p.)"The Fletcher Jones Foundation humanities imprint"--Prelim. p.0-520-25447-3 Includes bibliographical references (p. 295-319) and index.Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part 1. Science and the Formation of the Iranian Modern Middle Class, 1900-1950 -- Part 2. Medicalizing Modernity Interactions between the Biomedical Sciences and Modernity in Iran, 1900-1950 -- Conclusion -- Appendix First-Time Advertisements by Physicians in the Tehran Daily Ettelā'āt, 1927-1939 -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- IndexIn Who Is Knowledgeable Is Strong, Cyrus Schayegh tells two intertwined stories: how, in early twentieth-century Iran, an emerging middle class used modern scientific knowledge as its cultural and economic capital, and how, along with the state, it employed biomedical sciences to tackle presumably modern problems like the increasing stress of everyday life, people's defective willpower, and demographic stagnation. The book examines the ways by which scientific knowledge allowed the Iranian modernists to socially differentiate themselves from society at large and, at the very same time, to intervene in it. In so doing, it argues that both class formation and social reform emerged at the interstices of local Iranian and Western-dominated global contexts and concerns.Science and civilizationIranIntellectual life20th centuryIranSocial conditions20th century1900.1950.20th century.biomedical sciences.civic.class differences.class.demographics.economic power.everyday life.global concerns.global contexts.historical.iranian culture.iranian modernists.iranian society.middle class.middle east.modern history.modern iran.modern problems.modern science.modern stresses.nonfiction.revolution.science.scientific knowledge.social distinctions.social reform.western context.world history.Science and civilization.955.05Schayegh Cyrus1462592MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910790185703321Who is knowledgeable is strong3671624UNINA