Liberal cosmopolitan Lin Yutang and middling Chinese modernity /
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2011.
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| Series: | Ideas, history, and modern China ;
v. 3. |
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| Online Access: | An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view |
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Table of 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.