{"product_id":"internationalist-aesthetics-9780231199193","title":"Internationalist Aesthetics","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eInternationalist Aesthetics\u003c\/i\u003e offers a groundbreaking account of the crucial role that China played in the early Soviet cultural imagination. Reading across genres and media from reportage and biography to ballet and documentary film, Edward Tyerman shows how Soviet culture sought an aesthetics that could foster a sense of internationalist community.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this book, Tyerman achieves nothing less than a full historical reconstruction of how “China” became mediated as an essential component of Soviet political and cultural imagining after the failure of hoped for revolutions in Western Europe. This is a landmark work of Sino-Soviet transnational cultural history. -- Roy Chan, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Edge of Knowing: Dreams, History, and Realism in Modern Chinese Literature\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEdward Tyerman has produced the most sophisticated and rigorous study to date of Soviet-Chinese cultural interactions in the 1920s and beyond. \u003ci\u003eInternationalist Aesthetics\u003c\/i\u003e is a feat of both scholarship and conceptualization and is a must-read for all those seriously interested in leftist internationalism or transnational cultural encounters. -- Katerina Clark, author of \u003ci\u003eEurasia Without Borders: The Dream of a Leftist Literary Commons, 1919–1943\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA tour de force of scholarship that examines the possibilities and contradictions of the radical early Soviet project of transforming subjectivity from a completely new perspective: the Soviet engagement with China. Relying on his broad and deep knowledge of two different cultural contexts, Tyerman reveals the Soviet aspiration to create an “internationalist, anti-imperialist community” through the transformation of sensory experience across cultures. -- Elizabeth Papazian, author of \u003ci\u003eManufacturing Truth: The Documentary Moment in Early Soviet Culture\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis scintillating study explores the efforts of Soviet cultural producers in the 1920s to construct ‘China’ as a site for imagining a socialist 'international aesthetics.' With insight and sympathy, Tyerman conveys the idealism involved in this project while showing that it was undercut by assumptions about the universality of the Soviet experience. -- S.A. Smith, author of \u003ci\u003eRevolution and the People in Russia and China: A Comparative History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is a pathbreaking work. With great nuance and superbly insightful close readings, \u003ci\u003eInternationalist Aesthetics\u003c\/i\u003e shows the rise of this aesthetic, as well as its decline, and ponders its legacies for both Soviet culture and global cultural production. -- Nicolai Volland, author of \u003ci\u003eSocialist Cosmopolitanism: The Chinese Literary Universe, 1945-1965\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTyerman carve[s] out huge new areas of inquiry . . . The scholarship is fine-grained. -- Caryl Emerson * Times Literary Supplement *\u003cbr\u003eAmbitious, complex, and skilfully executed, Tyerman’s study is a true journey of discovery. -- Iva Glisic * Australian Book Review *\u003cbr\u003eA phenomenal intellectual achievement . . . \u003ci\u003eInternationalist Aesthetics\u003c\/i\u003e is a staggeringly erudite, formidably argued and fundamentally important book. -- Julian Graffy * Studies in Russian and Soviet Cinema *\u003cbr\u003eA timely interdisciplinary study . . . abounds in rich factual and theoretical interpretations. -- Victor Zatsepine * Journal of Asian Studies *\u003cbr\u003eGround-breaking, erudite and sophisticated . . . an impressive example of scholarship that cuts across, and brings into conversation, multiple fields, disciplines, and intellectual and aesthetic debates to shed light on the significance and use of China in the formation of early Soviet revolutionary culture of the 1920s. -- Susanna Lim * China Quarterly *\u003cbr\u003eThis masterfully curated tour of the many Chinas documented, imagined, and crafted by some of the most creative minds in the Soviet cultural milieu of the 1920s is a definitive treatment of a topic that so far has evaded systematic elucidation. -- Elizabeth McGuire * The Russian Review *\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eInternationalist Aesthetics\u003c\/i\u003eis a well-crafted and insightful study that will inspire future scholarship. -- Emily Wilcox * Twentieth-Century China *\u003cbr\u003eOriginal and highly revealing . . . [this book] represents a welcome addition to the study of Chinese-Russian cultural relations. -- Qiang Zhai * The Chinese Historical Review *\u003cbr\u003eAmbitious, sophisticated, and wide-ranging. * Modern Language Review *\u003cbr\u003eThis is a very close textual analysis of important sources, some of which are not easily accessible, and\u003cbr\u003ethus this study will be useful for those interested in these sources. * Pacific Affairs *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: China and Early Soviet Culture \u003cbr\u003e1. Sight, Sound, and Similarity: Soviet Writers Travel to China\u003cbr\u003e2. Translating China Onstage: \u003ci\u003eRoar, China!\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Red Poppy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e3. Through an Internationalist Lens: China in Early Soviet Cinema\u003cbr\u003e4. Confessions and Collaborations: Authority, Agency and Factographic Internationalism in \u003ci\u003eDen Shi-khua\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEpilogue: \u003ci\u003eInternational Literature\u003c\/i\u003e, National Form, and Missed Connections\u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eBibliography and Sources\u003cbr\u003eIndex","brand":"Columbia University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400355717463,"sku":"9780231199193","price":27.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780231199193.jpg?v=1730470478","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/internationalist-aesthetics-9780231199193","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}