Liberal cosmopolitan Lin Yutang and middling Chinese modernity /

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Autor principal: Qian, Suoqiao
Autor Corporativo: ebrary, Inc
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Lenguaje:inglés
Publicado: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2011.
Colección:Ideas, history, and modern China ; v. 3.
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Acceso en línea:An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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  • 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.