Western Images of China

This book discusses the ways in which Westerners, from the earliest times until the late 1980s, have perceived China--both the China of their own time and the China of the past. Examining sources from all media, the author demonstrates the enormous variety in Western images of China over the centuries--at certain times China has constituted a model for schools of thought in the West, while at others the country has been viewed as a threat.

History

MACKERRAS, Colin

Americas

Oxford University Press

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

China is home to 55 recognized minority groups including Tibetans, Muslim Uygurs, Mongolians, and Koreans. This insightful study looks at the status of minorities in China throughout the twentieth century, placing particular emphasis on population growth and decline, the implementation of central government policies aimed towards them, economic development, and their international relations. Colin Mackerras charts the dynamics of the political, social, and economic modernization of the communities themselves as well as their integration into greater China. Emerging from his thoughtful assessment of the current status of Chinese minorities are predictions about what the future will hold for these elements of contemporary Chinese society.

China's Minorities: Integration and Modernization in the Twentieth Century

World

Peking opera is known worldwide for its lively music, colorful costumes, and thrilling displays of acrobatic prowess. This illustrated introduction features descriptions of the opera's character types, selected pieces, and its history in order to place this rich and unique art form in the cultural world of contemporary China.

Peking Opera (Images of Asia)

Arts & Photography

Music

Written for a broad audience, this book provides a coherent reevaluation of Western ideas about China. It covers perceptions of China from the earliest times through the late 1980s and draws on a range of sources, including literature, journalism, and the arts, to show how changing power relations have influenced Western ideas about China, its people and its history. The book describes in particular how China has served both as a model and as a threat for different schools of thought in the West.

Asia

This book brings together ninety extracts of Western non-fiction about China, many of which have been out of print for centuries. Authors include Marco Polo, Adam Smith, Somerset Maugham, Pearl Buck, and Sheryl WuDunn. Topics covered include female infanticide, secular politics, cannibalism, Confucianism, and human rights.

Sinophiles and Sinophobes: Western Views on China (Literary Anthologies of Asia)

Literature & Fiction

This book explores China's history beginning in 1978, and follows the country's economic and social reform well into the 1990s. As well as studying the political evolution of the period and rural and industrial economic reform, the book covers topics such as law, foreign relations, and problems of the environment.

China Since 1978: Reform, Modernization and 'Socialism With Chinese Characteristics' (Studies on Contemporary Asia)

Taneja, Pradeep

Young, Graham

Palgrave Publishers, Limited

Two separate studies actually, one before and one after the 1949 transition from the Republic to the People's Republic. Focusing especially on Tibetans, Islamic communities, and Koreans, explores the religion, education, family and gender, and literature and theater of the 55 recognized minorities in China. Explains how ethnic identity has increased among nearly all since the 1980s and has come into conflict with the state's efforts to integrate all Chinese into the dominant Han culture and political and economic unity. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

China's Minority Cultures: Identities and Integration Since 1912

Longman

The Performing Arts in Contemporary China (Routledge Library Editions: Chinese Literature and Arts)

Reference

Routledge

The overthrow of the 'gang of four' in 1976 had profound effects in all areas of Chinese society, and probably nowhere can this be seen more clearly than in the performing arts. Jiang Qing, Mao Zedong's widow, was strongly interested in the performing arts and exercised great influence over them. Professor Mackerras describes this influence and the effects its removal had on the arts in the years after Mao's death, as well as in the years following the Cultural Revolution. This book, first published in 1981, deals not only with opera, the spoken play, music and dance but also with cinema, describing how in all these cases the Chinese have adapted traditional art forms for political, social and propagandist purposes, both domestic and international. It charts the transformations that have taken place in all the multiple aspects of the performing arts and sets them against the development of Chinese society as a whole. It also looks at the role of the actor and performer in society, including their training, social status and livelihood.

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Western Images of China

Western Images of China

China's Minorities: Integration and Modernization in the Twentieth Century

Peking Opera (Images of Asia)

Western Images of China

Sinophiles and Sinophobes: Western Views on China (Literary Anthologies of Asia)

China Since 1978: Reform, Modernization and 'Socialism With Chinese Characteristics' (Studies on Contemporary Asia)

China's Minority Cultures: Identities and Integration Since 1912

The Performing Arts in Contemporary China (Routledge Library Editions: Chinese Literature and Arts)

The Performing Arts in Contemporary China (Routledge Library Editions: Chinese Literature and Arts)