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Liberal cosmopolitan [electronic resource] : Lin Yutang and middling Chinese modernity / by Qian Suoqiao.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Ideas, history, and modern China ; v. 3.Publication details: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2011.Description: x, 271 pSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 895.1/85109 22
LOC classification:
  • PL2781.N2 Z815 2011
Online resources:
Contents:
Introduction: re-discovering Lin Yutang in the post-Mao era -- Chinese modernity: nationalism, imperialism, and the liberal cosmopolitan alternative -- Enlightenment and national salvation: the politics of a liberal nationalist -- "Little critic:" "returned" professionals and the cosmopolitan modern -- A cross-cultural aesthetics of life: translating "xingling" into "self-expression," "xianshi" into "leisure" and "humor" into "youmo" -- Oriental other: the business of translating Chinese and American cultures -- Cosmopolitan difference: critique of imperialism and debating "Chinahands" -- Conclusion: what a liberal cosmopolitan alternative means for contemporary Chinese intellectual dilemma -- Appendix. Chronology of Lin Yutang.
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Ebook TUS: Midlands, Main Library Athlone Online eBook (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: re-discovering Lin Yutang in the post-Mao era -- Chinese modernity: nationalism, imperialism, and the liberal cosmopolitan alternative -- Enlightenment and national salvation: the politics of a liberal nationalist -- "Little critic:" "returned" professionals and the cosmopolitan modern -- A cross-cultural aesthetics of life: translating "xingling" into "self-expression," "xianshi" into "leisure" and "humor" into "youmo" -- Oriental other: the business of translating Chinese and American cultures -- Cosmopolitan difference: critique of imperialism and debating "Chinahands" -- Conclusion: what a liberal cosmopolitan alternative means for contemporary Chinese intellectual dilemma -- Appendix. Chronology of Lin Yutang.

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