Chinese Modernity and Global Biopolitics
Subtitle: Studies in Literature and Visual Culture
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Published: June 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9780824831110
Subjects: Cultural studies; Globalization; Literary studies: from c 1900 -; The Arts: General Issues; 20th century; Literary Criticism; History - General History; China; Asia - China; Asian; Asian - Chinese; Biopolitics; Popular culture; Postmodernism
Description: This is an interdisciplinary study of Chinese modernity in the context of globalisation from the late 19th century onwards. The text draws on Chinese literature, film, art, photography, and video to map the emergence of modern China in relation to the capitalist world-system in the economic, social, and political realms.