Politics of Chinese Language and Culture : The Art of Reading Dragons

ISBN-13: 9780415172653 / Angielski / Twarda / 1998 / 208 str.

Bob Hodge; Kam Louie

Opis

A study of Chinese language, culture and society, this book adopts the tools of cultural studies and applies them to a previously conservative discipline. It employs concepts of social semiotics to extend the ideas of language and reading and covers a range of cultural texts. The authors tackle areas such as grammar, language, gender, popular culture, film and the Chinese diaspora. The book should help to break down the boundaries around the ideas and identities of East and West and provide a relevant analysis of the Chinese and China.

Recenzje

'The authors are to be congratulated on expressing the complex ideas they are dealing with in a refreshingly clear and jargon-free manner.' - Asian Affairs, February 2000

Spis treści

Chapter 1 How to Read Dragons; Chapter 2 Reading Style; Chapter 3 Writing and the Ideological Machine; Chapter 4 Grammar as Ideology; Chapter 5 Living with Double-Think; Chapter 6 The Cult of the Hero; Chapter 7 Breaking the Square;

O autorze

Hodge, Bob; Louie, Kam