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Author : James H. Cole
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780765603951
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (39 download)
Download or read book Twentieth Century China: A-I written by James H. Cole and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Shazeda Ahmed
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781585662951
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (629 download)
Download or read book Artificial Intelligence, China, Russia, and the Global Order written by Shazeda Ahmed and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Artificial intelligence (AI) and big data promise to help reshape the global order. For decades, most political observers believed that liberal democracy offered the only plausible future pathways for big, industrially sophisticated countries to make their citizens rich. Now, by allowing governments to monitor, understand, and control their citizens far more effectively than ever before, AI offers a plausible way for big, economically advanced countries to make their citizens rich while maintaining control over them--the first since the end of the Cold War. That may help fuel and shape renewed international competition between types of political regimes that are all becoming more "digital." Just as competition between liberal democratic, fascist, and communist social systems defined much of the twentieth century, how may the struggle between digital liberal democracy and digital authoritarianism define and shape the twenty-first? This work highlights several key areas where AI-related technologies have clear implications for globally integrated strategic planning and requirements development"--
Author : Lian Duan
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000919420
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (9 download)
Download or read book Art History, Narratology, and Twentieth-Century Chinese Art written by Lian Duan and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-07-28 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study constructs a framework of narratology for art history and rewrites the development of twentieth-century Chinese art from a narratological perspective. Theoretically and methodologically oriented, this is a self-reflective meta-art history studying the art historical narratives while narrating the story of modern and contemporary Chinese art. Thus, this book explores the three layers of narrative within the narratological framework: the first-hand fabula, the secondary narration, and the tertiary narrativization. With this tertiary narrativization, the reader-author presents three types of narrative: the grand narrative of the central thesis of this book, the middle-range narrative of the chapter theses, and case analyses supporting these theses. The focus of this tertiary narrativization is the interaction between Western influence on Chinese art and the Chinese response to this influence. The central thesis is that this interaction conditioned and shaped the development of Chinese art at every historical turning point in the twentieth century. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, critical theory, Chinese studies, and cultural studies.
Author : Ellen Johnston Laing
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472901486
Total Pages : 555 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (729 download)
Download or read book An Index to Reproductions of Paintings by Twentieth-Century Chinese Artists written by Ellen Johnston Laing and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2020-08-06 with total page 555 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the second half of the twentieth century, studies in Chinese painting history have been greatly aided by several major lists of Chinese artists and their works. Published between 1956 and 1980, these lists were limited to Imperial China. The current index covers the period from 1912 to around 1980. It includes the names of approximately 3,500 traditional-style artists along with lists of their works, reproduced in some 264 monographs, books, journals, and catalogs published from the 1920s to around 1980. With a few exceptions, artists working after 1949 outside continental China are excluded. Revised Edition, 1998; first published by the Asian Studies Program, University of Oregon, 1984.
Author : Minglu Gao
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262294710
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (622 download)
Download or read book Total Modernity and the Avant-Garde in Twentieth-Century Chinese Art written by Minglu Gao and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2011-04-29 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A groundbreaking book that describes a distinctively Chinese avant-gardism and a modernity that unifies art, politics, and social life. To the extent that Chinese contemporary art has become a global phenomenon, it is largely through the groundbreaking exhibitions curated by Gao Minglu: "China/Avant-Garde" (Beijing, 1989), "Inside Out: New Chinese Art" (Asia Society, New York, 1998), and "The Wall: Reshaping Contemporary Chinese Art" (Albright-Knox Art Gallery, 2005) among them. As the first Chinese writer to articulate a distinctively Chinese avant-gardism and modernity—one not defined by Western chronology or formalism—Gao Minglu is largely responsible for the visibility of Chinese art in the global art scene today. Contemporary Chinese artists tend to navigate between extremes, either embracing or rejecting a rich classical tradition. Indeed, for Chinese artists, the term "modernity" refers not to a new epoch or aesthetic but to a new nation—modernityinextricably connects politics to art. It is this notion of "total modernity" that forms the foundation of the Chinese avant-garde aesthetic, and of this book. Gao examines the many ways Chinese artists engaged with this intrinsic total modernity, including the '85 Movement, political pop, cynical realism, apartment art, maximalism, and the museum age, encompassing the emergenceof local art museums and organizations as well as such major events as the Shanghai Biennial. He describes the inner logic of the Chinese context while locating the art within the framework of a worldwide avant-garde. He vividly describes the Chinese avant-garde's embrace of a modernity that unifies politics, aesthetics, and social life, blurring the boundaries between abstraction, conception, and representation. Lavishly illustrated with color images throughout, this book will be a touchstone for all considerations of Chinese contemporary art.
Author : Qiliang He
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 331989692X
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (198 download)
Download or read book Feminism, Women's Agency, and Communication in Early Twentieth-Century China written by Qiliang He and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-06-14 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Feminism, Women’s Agency, and Communication in Early Twentieth-Century China focuses on a sensational elopement in the Yangzi Delta in the late 1920s to explore how middle- and lower-class members of society gained access to and appropriated otherwise alien and abstract enlightenment theories and idioms about love, marriage, and family. Via a network of communications that connected people of differing socioeconomic and educational backgrounds, non-elite women were empowered to display their new womanhood and thereby exercise their self-activating agency to mount resistance to China’s patriarchal system. Qiliang He’s text also investigates the proliferation of anti-feminist conservatisms in legal practice, scholarly discourses, media, and popular culture in the early Nanjing Decade (1927-1937). Utilizing a framework of interdisciplinary scholarship, this book traverses various fields such as legal history, women’s history, popular culture/media studies, and literary studies to explore urban discourse and communication in 1920s China.
Author : Laurence A. Schneider
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780742553064
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (53 download)
Download or read book Biology and Revolution in Twentieth-Century China written by Laurence A. Schneider and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2005 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using the field of genetics as a case study, this book follows the troubled development of modern natural science in China from the 1920s, through Mao's China, to the present post-socialist era. Through detailed portraits of key scientists and institutions, basic dilemmas are explored: how to control nature with science, how to gain independence from foreign-controlled science, how to get scientists out from under control of ideology and the state. Using the field of genetics as a case study, this book follows the troubled development of modern natural science in China from the 1920s, through Mao's China, to the present post-socialist era. Through detailed portraits of key scientists and institutions, basic dilemmas are explored: how to control nature with science, how to gain independence from foreign-controlled science, how to get scientists out from under control of ideology and the state.
Author : Donald J. Munro
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472901788
Total Pages : 159 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (729 download)
Download or read book The Imperial Style of Inquiry in Twentieth-Century China written by Donald J. Munro and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2020-06-01 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How have traditional Chinese ways of thinking affected problem solving in this century? The traditional, imperial style of inquiry is associated with the belief that the universe is a coherent, internally structured unity understandable through the similarly structured human mind. It involves a reliance on antecedent and authoritarian models, coupled with an introspective focus in investigations, at some cost to objective fact gathering. In contrast, emergent forms of inquiry are guided by the values of individual autonomy and new perspectives on objectivity. In the 1930s and 1940s, some liberal educators held the model of Western science in great esteem, and some scientists practicing objective inquiry helped to create an awareness in the urban areas of inquiry not directed by political values. Drawing on philosophical, social science, and popular culture materials, Donald Munro shows that the two strains coexisted in twentieth century China as mixed motives. Many important figures were motivated by a desire to act consistently with the social values associated with the premodern or received view of knowledge and inquiry. At the same time, these people often had other motives, such as utilitarian values, efficiency, and entrepreneurship. Munro argues that while many competing positions can coexist in the same person, the seeds of the positive, instrumental value of individual autonomy in Chinese inquiry are beginning to compete in both scholarly and popular culture with other, older approaches.
Author : Michael Sullivan
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 052091161X
Total Pages : 451 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)
Download or read book Art and Artists of Twentieth-Century China written by Michael Sullivan and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-12-22 with total page 451 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This visually stunning book focuses on the rebirth of Chinese art in the twentieth century under the influence of Western art and culture. Michael Sullivan, recognized throughout the world as a leading scholar of Chinese art, vividly documents the conflicting pulls of traditional and Western values on Chinese art and provides 364 illustrations, in color and black-and-white, to show the great range of artistic expression and the historical processes that occurred within various movements. A substantial biographical index of twentieth-century Chinese artists is a valuable addition to the text. Sullivan discusses artists and their work against China's background of oppression and relaxation, despair and hope. He expertly conveys the diverse and at times bizarre intertwining of Chinese cultural history and art during this century. Included are the intense debates between traditionalists and reformers, the creation of the first art schools, and the birth of the idea—shocking in ethnocentric China—that art is a world language that obliterates all frontiers. The scholarly traditions of classical Chinese painting, the belated discovery of Western modernism, the artistic upheaval under Communism, and China's rethinking of the very nature of art all have a place in Sullivan's fascinating history. Michael Sullivan has known many of the major figures in China's modern art movement of the 1930s and 1940s and has also gained the confidence of younger artists who rose to prominence following the 1979 "Peking Spring." This long-awaited book—richly documented and abundantly illustrated—is a capstone to Sullivan's work and will be enthusiastically welcomed by art lovers everywhere.
Author : William J. Duiker
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271044535
Total Pages : 137 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)
Download or read book Ts'ai Yuan-p'ei written by William J. Duiker and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2010-11-01 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Bonnie S. McDougall
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780231110846
Total Pages : 526 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (18 download)
Download or read book The Literature of China in the Twentieth Century written by Bonnie S. McDougall and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The written culture of 20th-century China has only recently begun to receive sustained attention from Western readers and critics. This book presents illuminating information on writers, audiences, and the impact of various literary works on politics and culture--and provides a unique window on Chinese society.
Author : Leo Tak-hung Chan
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027295670
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)
Download or read book Twentieth-Century Chinese Translation Theory written by Leo Tak-hung Chan and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2004-05-28 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Past attempts at writing a history of Chinese translation theory have been bedeviled by a chronological approach, which often forces the writer to provide no more than a list of important theories and theorists over the centuries. Or they have stretched out to almost every aspect related to translation in China, so that the historical/political backdrop that had an influence on translation theorizing turns out to be more important than the theories themselves. In the present book, the author hopes to devote exclusive attention to the ideas themselves. The approach adopted centers around eight key issues that engaged the attention of theorists through the course of the twentieth century, in the hope that a historical account will be presented that is not time-bound. On the basis of 38 articles translated into English by teachers and scholars of translation, the author has written four essays discussing the Chinese characteristics of this body of theory. Separately they focus on the impressionistic, the modern, the postcolonial, and the poststructuralist approaches deployed by leading Chinese theorists from 1901 to 1998. It is hoped that publication of this book will make possible cross-cultural dialogue with translation academics in the West, although the general reader will find much firsthand information on Chinese thinking about translation.
Author : Tonglin Lu
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791413715
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (137 download)
Download or read book Gender and Sexuality in Twentieth-Century Chinese Literature and Society written by Tonglin Lu and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Only women and inferior men are difficult to deal with." -- Confucius Two thousand years after Confucius, the contributors to this book ask if Chinese women have succeeded in changing their status as the equivalent of "inferior men." Gender and Sexuality in Twentieth-Century Chinese Literature and Society approaches the role of women in social change through analyzing literature and culture during the May Fourth and the Post-Cultural Revolution periods.
Author : Lily Xiao Hong Lee
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131549924X
Total Pages : 796 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (154 download)
Download or read book Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Women: v. 2: Twentieth Century written by Lily Xiao Hong Lee and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-07-08 with total page 796 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first biographical dictionary in any Western language devoted solely to Chinese women, Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Women is the product of years of research, translation, and writing by scores of China scholars from around the world. Volume II: Twentieth Century includes a far greater range of women than would have been previously possible because of the enormous amount of historical material and scholarly research that has become available recently. They include scientists, businesswomen, sportswomen, military officers, writers, scholars, revolutionary heroines, politicians, musicians, opera stars, film stars, artists, educators, nuns, and more.
Author : Liang Luo
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472120344
Total Pages : 367 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (721 download)
Download or read book The Avant-Garde and the Popular in Modern China written by Liang Luo and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2014-07-15 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Avant-Garde and the Popular in Modern China explores how an important group of Chinese performing artists invested in politics and the pursuit of the avant-garde came to terms with different ways of being “popular” in modern times. In particular, playwright and activist Tian Han (1898-1968) exemplified the instability of conventional delineations between the avant-garde, popular culture, and political propaganda. Liang Luo traces Tian’s trajectory through key moments in the evolution of twentieth-century Chinese national culture, from the Christian socialist cosmopolitanism of post–WWI Tokyo to the urban modernism of Shanghai in 1920s and 30s, then into the Chinese hinterland during the late 1930s and 40s, and finally to the Communist Beijing of the 1950s, revealing the dynamic interplay of art and politics throughout this period. Understanding Tian in his time sheds light upon a new generation of contemporary Chinese avant-gardists (Ai Wei Wei being the best known), who, half a century later, are similarly engaging national politics and popular culture.
Author : Edward M. Gunn
Publisher : Bloomington : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 552 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Twentieth-century Chinese Drama written by Edward M. Gunn and published by Bloomington : Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1983 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Kjeld Erik Brødsgaard
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780198293118
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (931 download)
Download or read book Reconstructing Twentieth-century China written by Kjeld Erik Brødsgaard and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text argues that the underlying theme of China's development trajectory in the 20th century is reconstruction. Contributors examine how movements and transitions have affected China at regular periods during this century.
