ISBN:
9780415626545
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xxii, 269 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. Palo Alto, Calif ebrary 2013 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
Routledge contemporary China series 90
DDC:
303.48/21821051
Keywords:
China Study and teaching
;
Psychological aspects
;
China Foreign public opinion
;
History
;
China Study and teaching
;
History
Abstract:
Why, for centuries, have the West and the world continuously produced China knowledge that deviates from Chinese realities? Why, since the mid-nineteenth century, have Chinese intellectuals oscillated between commendation and condemnation of their own culture, and between fetishization and demonization of all things Western? And why have some of the world's wisest thinkers expressed opinions on Chinese culture, which are simply wrong? In order to answer these questions, this book explores the process of knowledge production about China and the Chinese civilization and in turn
Description / Table of Contents:
Introduction : Orientalism and beyond -- Knowledge and cultural unconscious -- Sinology, Sinologism, and postcolonialism -- Sinologism : a historical critique -- The ideology of epistemology -- The ideology of methodology -- The ethnic unconscious -- The political unconscious -- Linguistic Sinologism -- Conclusion : a theory of self-conscious reflection.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [250]-263) and index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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