Occidentalism : a theory of counter-discourse in post-Mao China

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Occidentalism : a theory of counter-discourse in post-Mao China

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a theory of counter-discourse in post-Mao China

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Xiaomei Chen

Creator

• Chen, Xiaomei, 1954-

Subject

• China -- Intellectual life -- 1976-
• China -- Politics and government -- 1976-2002
• Chinese literature -- 20th century -- Western influences
• East and West

Language

eng

Summary

• In the first comprehensive study of Occidentalism in post-Mao China, 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. She 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 "Occidentalism"--Can actually have a politically and ideologically liberating effect on contemporary non-Western culture. She maintains that simplistic allegations of Orientalism frequently found in current critical discourses seriously underestimate the complexities of intercultural and multicultural relationships
• Occidentalism presents a new model of comparative literary and cultural studies that reenvisions cross-cultural appropriation. It will be indispensable to future discussions of Orientalism, Occidentalism, and postcolonialism, as well as subaltern studies, Asian studies, comparative literature, cultural studies, and non-Western drama

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non fiction

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