Liberal cosmopolitan [electronic resource] : Lin Yutang and middling Chinese modernity / by Qian Suoqiao.
By: Qian, Suoqiao.
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BookSeries: Ideas, history, and modern China: v. 3.Publisher: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2011Description: x, 271 p.Subject(s): Lin, Yutang, 1895-1976 -- Criticism and interpretation | Lin, Yutang, 1895-1976 -- Political and social views | Cosmopolitanism -- China -- History | China -- Intellectual life -- 20th centuryGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 895.1/85109 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view | Item type | Current location | Collection | Call number | URL | Copy number | Status | Date due | Item holds |
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: re-discovering Lin Yutang in the post-Mao era -- Chinese modernity: nationalism, imperialism, and the liberal cosmopolitan alternative -- Enlightenment and national salvation: the politics of a liberal nationalist -- "Little critic:" "returned" professionals and the cosmopolitan modern -- A cross-cultural aesthetics of life: translating "xingling" into "self-expression," "xianshi" into "leisure" and "humor" into "youmo" -- Oriental other: the business of translating Chinese and American cultures -- Cosmopolitan difference: critique of imperialism and debating "Chinahands" -- Conclusion: what a liberal cosmopolitan alternative means for contemporary Chinese intellectual dilemma -- Appendix. Chronology of Lin Yutang.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
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