| Chinas Unlimited: Making the Imaginaries of China and Chineseness Contributor(s): Lee, Gregory B. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0824826809 ISBN-13: 9780824826802 Publisher: University of Hawaii Press OUR PRICE: $44.65 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: December 2002 Annotation: Mr. Wu the laundryman, the evil Fu Manchu, the sex maniac, the opium addict, the docile immigrant. These stereotypes applied to Chinese people stretch back to the Victorian era, yet resurface with regularity in today's media. In order to understand the numerous ways of seeing and being Chinese, Chinas Unlimited analyzes Chinese literary and cultural texts, such as television soap serials, as well as popular cultural representations of the Chinese. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Ethnic Studies - Asian American Studies - Social Science | Popular Culture - Social Science | Anthropology - Cultural & Social |
| Dewey: 306.095 |
| LCCN: 2004303736 |
| Series: Chinese Worlds |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.52" W x 8.74" (0.61 lbs) 136 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Chinese - Ethnic Orientation - Asian |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Mr. Wu the laundryman, the evil Fu Manchu, the sex maniac, the opium addict, the docile immigrant worker: These stereotypes applied to Chinese people stretch back to the Victorian era, yet resurface with regularity in today's media. In China itself the way the Chinese perceive and project themselves and their ethnicity has evolved over recent years, with discordant and unofficial voices challenging normative ideas of Chinese identity. In order to understand the numerous ways of seeing and being Chinese, Chinas Unlimited analyzes Chinese literary and cultural texts, such as television soap serials, as well as popular cultural representations of the Chinese. |