The Forged Note (Chinese Edition)
Title | The Forged Note (Chinese Edition) PDF eBook |
Author | Oscar Micheaux |
Publisher | CreateSpace |
Pages | 564 |
Release | 2015-04-18 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781511782791 |
The story of a racially motivated lynching in Atlanta.
Shanzhai
Title | Shanzhai PDF eBook |
Author | Byung-Chul Han |
Publisher | MIT Press |
Pages | 100 |
Release | 2017-10-06 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 0262534363 |
Tracing the thread of “decreation” in Chinese thought, from constantly changing classical masterpieces to fake cell phones that are better than the original. Shanzhai is a Chinese neologism that means “fake,” originally coined to describe knock-off cell phones marketed under such names as Nokir and Samsing. These cell phones were not crude forgeries but multifunctional, stylish, and as good as or better than the originals. Shanzhai has since spread into other parts of Chinese life, with shanzhai books, shanzhai politicians, shanzhai stars. There is a shanzhai Harry Potter: Harry Potter and the Porcelain Doll, in which Harry takes on his nemesis Yandomort. In the West, this would be seen as piracy, or even desecration, but in Chinese culture, originals are continually transformed—deconstructed. In this volume in the Untimely Meditations series, Byung-Chul Han traces the thread of deconstruction, or “decreation,” in Chinese thought, from ancient masterpieces that invite inscription and transcription to Maoism—“a kind a shanzhai Marxism,” Han writes. Han discusses the Chinese concepts of quan, or law, which literally means the weight that slides back and forth on a scale, radically different from Western notions of absoluteness; zhen ji, or original, determined not by an act of creation but by unending process; xian zhan, or seals of leisure, affixed by collectors and part of the picture's composition; fuzhi, or copy, a replica of equal value to the original; and shanzhai. The Far East, Han writes, is not familiar with such “pre-deconstructive” factors as original or identity. Far Eastern thought begins with deconstruction.
The Chinese Classics: with a Translation, Critical and Exegetical Notes, Prolegomena and Copious Indexes ... in Seven Volumes
Title | The Chinese Classics: with a Translation, Critical and Exegetical Notes, Prolegomena and Copious Indexes ... in Seven Volumes PDF eBook |
Author | James Legge |
Publisher | |
Pages | 514 |
Release | 1865 |
Genre | China |
ISBN |
Reading China [electronic resource]
Title | Reading China [electronic resource] PDF eBook |
Author | Daria Berg |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 344 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9004154833 |
This volume develops a new style of reading Chinese sources, as pioneered in Chinese Studies by Professor Glen Dudbridge, providing fascinating new insights into Chinese literature, history and popular culture. The analysis of self-fashioning, representation and political propaganda sheds new light on Chinese perceptions of the world.
Japan Times. Weekly Edition
Title | Japan Times. Weekly Edition PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 1178 |
Release | 1912 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
The Japan Daily Mail
Title | The Japan Daily Mail PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 728 |
Release | 1903 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Wealth and Power
Title | Wealth and Power PDF eBook |
Author | Orville Schell |
Publisher | |
Pages | 497 |
Release | 2013 |
Genre | China |
ISBN | 0679643478 |
Two leading experts on China evaluate its rise throughout the past one hundred fifty years, sharing portraits of key intellectual and political leaders to explain how China transformed from a country under foreign assault to a world giant.