This is a comparative study of the politics of Chinese cultural identity facing China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, the US-Chinese, and the Chinese diaspora in the West. The author challenges current discussions of hybridity and nationalism by contrasting the experiences of Taiwan, Hong Kong and US-Chinese with those of China and the Chinese diaspora.

This study explores the evidence for Chinese writing in the late Neolithic (3500-2000 BCE) and early Bronze Age (2000-1250 BCE) periods. Chinese writing is often said to have begun with little incubation during the late Shang period (c. 1300-1045 BCE) in the middle-lower Yellow River Valley area as a sudden independent invention. This explanation runs counter to evidence from M...(展开全部)

With the increasing popularity of the Chinese film industry, a large amount of foreign captial has been invested in the productions. Internationalization on this scale at both the production and consumption levels has raised the question of what constitutes "Chinese cinema". In this book the authors discuss the central topic of a national cinema and analyze the emergence of "tr...(展开全部)

This collection of essays on "later" Chinese Buddhism takes us beyond the bedrock subjects of traditional Buddhist historiography - scriptures and commentaries, sectarian developments, lives of notable monks - to examine a wide range of extracanonical materials that illuminate cultural manifestations of Buddhism from the Song dynasty (960-1279) through the modern period. Strayi...(展开全部)

The complexity and confusion of styles and intentions are true characters of modern Chinese art. Just as the definition of 'modernity' was subjected to reinterpretations at various points in China's recent history, current notions of the canon are likewise subjected to change, because the canonicity of art, which rests no more on intrinsic aesthetic value than on external facto...(展开全部)

The complexity and confusion of styles and intentions are true characters of modern Chinese art. Just as the definition of 'modernity' was subjected to reinterpretations at various points in China's recent history, current notions of the canon are likewise subjected to change, because the canonicity of art, which rests no more on intrinsic aesthetic value than on external facto...(展开全部)

This general introduction to the study of the Chinese language traces its history from its beginings in the second millennium BC to the present day and provides a clear picture of the contemporary language and its sociolinguistic status. Chinese in its numerous dialect forms, has more speakers than any language in the modern world, and this vast extension in time and space brin...(展开全部)