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Chinese thirdspace : the paradox of moderate politics, 1946-2020 / Jianmei Liu

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Liu, Jianmei, 1967-
Published
New York : Columbia University Press, [2025]
Physical Description
ix, 362 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

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Contents
Zhang Dongsun : the predicament of thirdspace -- Yin Haiguang : colorless thought as thirdspace -- Jin Yong : thirdspace as a political stance and fictional transgression -- Liu Zaifu : envisioning variations of thirdspace -- Gao Xingjian : transmedia aesthetics of thirdspace -- Chinese female writers' construction of thirdspace.
Summary
"The overriding narrative of Chinese political, cultural, and literary history of the past century has been dominated by either/or thinking and conflicts derived from opposing binaries. Chinese intellectuals have been required to take sides in debates such as revolution versus antirevolution, progress versus regression, tradition versus modernity, the West versus the East, and leftist versus rightist. Jianmei Liu uses the concept of Third Space, as coined by Homi Bhabha and further theorized by Edward Soja, to explore the ways in which, from the 1930s to today, Chinese thinkers at home and abroad have attempted to find a way out of these binaries. Liu's choice of case studies spans the political philosophy of Zhang Dongsun, who tried to forge a path that assimilated the benefits of both capitalism and socialism, mediating between the Kuomintang (KMT) and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) during the Republic period, to Jin Yong's martial arts fiction and Nobel laureate Gao Xingjian's transmedia practice in his cine-poems. She ends with a look at what's happening today, including the controversy over Fang Fang's Wuhan Diary"--
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9780231214209 hardcover
0231214200 hardcover
9780231214216 trade paperback
0231214219 trade paperback
9780231560245 electronic book
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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