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Revolution of the Heart: A Genealogy of Love in China, 1900-1950

By Haiyan Lee

Book information

Year
2006
ISBN
0804754179, 9780804754170, 9781435608900
Open Library ID
OL11275227M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1392853 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
364\385
Topic
History
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

This book is an engagingly written critical genealogy of the idea of "love" in modern Chinese literature, thought, and popular culture. It examines a wide range of texts, including literary, historical, philosophical, anthropological, and popular cultural genres from the late imperial period to the beginning of the socialist era. It traces the process by which love became an all-pervasive subject of representation and discourse, as well as a common language in which modern notions of self, gender, family, sexuality, and nation were imagined and contested.Winner of the Association for Asian Studies 2009 Joseph Levenson Book Prize for the best English-language academic book on post-1900 China

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