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The End of Concern : Maoist China, Activism, and Asian Studies /
In 1968 a cohort of politically engaged young academics established the Committee of Concerned Asian Scholars (CCAS). Critical of the field of Asian studies and its complicity with the United States' policies in Vietnam, the CCAS mounted a sweeping attack on the field's academic, political...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Durham :
Duke University Press,
[2017]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction. Of Ends and Beginnings; or, When China Existed
- 1. America's Asia: Discovering China, Rethinking Knowledge
- 2. To Be, or Not to Be, a Scholar: The Praxis of Radicalism in Academia
- 3. Seeing and Understanding: China as the Place of Desire
- 4. Facing Thermidor: Global Maoism at Its End
- Epilogue. Area Redux: The Destinies of "China" in the 1980s and 1990s
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index