Mighty Opposites
Subtitle: From Dichotomies to Differences in the Comparative Study of China
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: January 1, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9780804732598
Subjects: Anthropology; Literary theory; Literary Criticism; Civilization; China - History; History Of Civilization And Culture (General); Western influences; History; Literature - Classics / Criticism; China; Comparative civilization; Asian - General; Literary Criticism & Collections / Asian; Asia - China; East and West
First sentence: A book that has been hailed as one of the most important French contributions to philosophy in this century, Michel Foucault's The Order of Things, first arose out of a passage in Jorge Luis Borges.