Search results for ""Author Lydia H. Liu""
The University of Chicago Press The Freudian Robot
Book SynopsisThe identity and role of writing has evolved in the age of digital media. But how did writing itself make digital media possible in the first place? This title offers a study of the political history of digital writing and its fateful entanglement with the Freudian unconscious.Trade Review"An interesting and significant book. The Freudian Robot is part of a new trend in the humanities that is reinventing comparative studies in light of digital media." - Eugene Thacker, Georgia Institute of Technology"
£26.60
Stanford University Press Translingual Practice Literature National Culture
Book SynopsisThis study-bridging contemporary theory, Chinese history, comparative literature, and culture studies-analyzes the historical interactions among China, Japan, and the West in terms of "translingual practice."Trade Review"This important book will be of great interest and immense use to anyone in modern Chinese cultural studies who would understand the process by which new words, meanings, discourses, and modes of representation arose, circulated, and acquired legitimacy in early modern China through contact with European and Japanese languages and literatures." —Choice"This book will be of interest to a wide audience and is must reading for those pursuing comparative studies."—Viren Murthy, University of HawaiiTable of ContentsPreface 1. Introduction: the problem of language in cross-cultural studies Part I. Between the Nation and the Individual: 2. Translating national character Lu Xun and Arthur Smith 3. The discourse of individualism Part II. Translingual modes of representation: 4. Homo Economicus and the question of novelistic realism 5. Narratives of desire: negotiating the real and the fantastic 6. The deixis of writing in the first person Part III. National Building and Culture Building: 7. Literary criticism as a discourse of legitimation 8. The making of the Compendium of Modern Chinese Literature 9. Rethinking culture and national essence Appendixes Notes Index.
£36.00
Harvard University, Asia Center Writing and Materiality in China
Book SynopsisThe goal of this volume is to consider the relationship of writing to materiality in China's literary history and to ponder the physical aspects of the production and circulation of writing.
£43.31
Duke University Press Tokens of Exchange
Book SynopsisIncludes the essays that focus on China and its interactions with the West to historicise an economy of translation. This work contends that 'national histories' and 'world history' must be read with absolute attention to the types of epistemological translatability that have been constructed among various languages and cultures in modern times.Trade Review“This impressive volume expands the metaphor of translation to encompass a broad spread of transcultural negotiations, thereby opening new possibilities for approaching the language and practices of East Asian modernities. The volume presents exemplary models for demonstrating the historicity of how concepts travel and become caught up within localized sign systems.”—Ann Anagnost, author of National Past-Times: Narrative, Representation, and Power in Modern China“This volume brilliantly translates ‘translation’ by theorizing it and demonstrating the contingency, historicity and political inflections of the practices that have constituted it. Specific attention to a series of examples from China and the diverse encounters with European knowledges show that the Universal is always particular.”—Paul Rabinow, University of California, BerkeleyTable of ContentsIntroduction/ Lydia H. Liu 1 The Question of Meaning-Value in the Political Economy of the Sign 13 Part I. Early Encounters: The Question of (In)commensurability 45 Part II. Colonial Circulations: From International Law to the Global Market 127 Part III. Science, Medicine, and Cultural Pathologies 239 Part IV. Language and the Production of Universal Knowledge 331 Glossary 399 Bibliography 411 Index 445 Contributors 457
£27.90
