Liberal cosmopolitan
Subtitle: Lin Yutang and middling Chinese modernity
By: Qian Suoqiao
Series: Ideas, history, and modern China -- v. 3
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9789004192133
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: re-discovering Lin Yutang in the post-Mao era; title: Chinese modernity: nationalism, imperialism, and the liberal cosmopolitan alternative; title: Enlightenment and national salvation: the politics of a liberal nationalist; title: "Little critic:" "returned" professionals and the cosmopolitan modern; title: A cross-cultural aesthetics of life: translating "xingling" into "self-expression," "xianshi" into "leisure" and "humor" into "youmo"; title: Oriental other: the business of translating Chinese and American cultures; title: Cosmopolitan difference: critique of imperialism and debating "Chinahands"; title: Conclusion: what a liberal cosmopolitan alternative means for contemporary Chinese intellectual dilemma; title: Appendix. Chronology of Lin Yutang.