Status
Available
Call number
Publication
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (2003), Edition: 2nd Revised & Enlarged, 304 pages
Description
Xiaomei Chen offers an insightful account of the unremittingly favorable depiction of Western culture and its negative characterization of Chinese culture in post-Mao China from 1978-1988. Chen examines the cultural and political interrelations between the East and West from a vantage point more complex than that accommodated by most current theories of Western imperialism and colonialism. Going beyond Edward Said's construction in Orientalism of cross-cultural appropriations as a defining facet of Western imperialism, Chen argues that the appropriation of Western discourse--what she calls ""O
Physical description
304 p.; 5.9 inches
Language
Original language
English
ISBN
0847698750 / 9780847698752