Sinology in Post-Communist States : Views from the Czech Republic, Mongolia, Poland, and Russia /

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Self-knowledge is the foundation of sinology. Becoming a sinologist involves engaging in multi-sited processes that deconstruct stereotypical notions of China's rise in the 21st century. The sinologists in this edited volume have actively participated in studies shaped by their specific histori...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Shi, Zhiyu, 1958- (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2016
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Post-communism > Cross-cultural studies.
China > Civilization > Study and teaching.
China > Study and teaching > Politics and government.
China > Study and teaching.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : an anthropology of knowledge in post-communist sinology / Chih-yu Shih
  • Part I. Doing sinology from post-communist perspectives
  • 1. Beyond academia and politics : understanding China and doing sinology in Czechoslovakia after World War II / Olga Lomová and Anna Zádrapová
  • 2. Linguistic choices for the identity of "China" in the discourse of Czech sinologists / Melissa Shih-hui Lin
  • 3. Surging between China and Russia : legacies, politics, and turns of sinology in contemporary Mongolia / Enkhchimeg Baatarkhuyag and Chih-yu Shih
  • 4. Sinology in Poland : epistemological debates and academic practice / Anna Rudakowska
  • 5. The lifting of the "iron veil" by Russian sinologists during the Soviet period (1917-1991) / Valentin C. Golovachev
  • 6. Soviet sinology : two conflicting paradigms of Chinese history / Alexander Pisarev
  • 7. Chinese studies in post-Soviet Russia : from uneven development to the search for integrity / Alexei D. Voskressenski
  • part II. Being sinologists in post-communist societies
  • 8. Polish sinology : reflections on individualized trajectories / Bogdan J. Góralczyk
  • 9. "The songs of ancient China" : the myth of "the other" appropriated by an emerging sinology / Olga Lomová and Anna Zádrapová
  • 10. Between sinology and socialism : the collective memory of Czech sinologists in the 1950s / Ter-Hsing Cheng
  • 11. Tangut (Xi Xia) studies in the Soviet Union : the quinta essentia of Russian Oriental studies / Sergey Dmitriev
  • 12. Different ways to become a Soviet sinologist : a note on personal choices / Marina Kuznetsova-Fetisova
  • Conclusion : the evolution of sinology after the communist party-state / Chih-yu Shih.

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