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Transpacific community : the rise and fall of a Sino-American Cultural network /
In the turbulent years after World War I, a transpacific community of American and Chinese writers and artists emerged to forge new ideas regarding aesthetics, democracy, internationalism, and the political possibilities of art. Breaking with preconceived notions of an "exotic" East, the A...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Columbia University Press,
2016.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- Table of Contents ; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Narrowing Circle: America and China Circa 1929; 1. Long-Distance Realism: Agnes Smedley and the Transpacific Cultural Front; 2. The Good Earth Effect: Pearl Buck and Natural Democracy; 3. Pentatonic Democracy: Paul Robeson and the Black Voice in Chinese; 4. Typographic Ethnic Modernism: Lin Yutang and the Republican Chinaman; 5. Xuanchuan as World Literature: Lao She and the Uses of Global Propaganda; Epilogue: The Afterlife of Failure: Recentering Asian American and Chinese Histories; Notes; Index.