Deleuze and Chinese "Pure Literature": Literary Worlding from History to Becoming probes into the potentialities of a new conception of literature obscured by the critical ambivalence in China's literary field around the turn of the century. With the help of Gilles Deleuze's philosophy, this book articulates many of the latent social, political, and cultural ideas embedded in "pure literature" subsisting as a literary sensibility waiting to be expressed. The specific practices and works of "pure literature" analyzed in the book also serve as instances of what Deleuze's creative concepts can address, testing and fleshing out their efficacy. Identifying shared problem-solving areas between Deleuze's philosophy and Chinese "pure literature," Jian Xu uses them to shed light on the hidden edges of Chinese "pure literature." Through such Deleuzian theses as the immanence of becoming, the need of the nonhistorical, the virtual real and pure event, the ills of representationalism, becoming-minoritarian, becoming-woman, becoming-imperceptible, pre-individual singularities, and so forth, the book sets about creating a new critical vocabulary to help "pure literature" become self-conscious of its own political creative potentials.

Deleuze and Chinese "Pure Literature": Literary Worlding from History to Becoming

Literature & Fiction

Xu, Jian

History & Criticism

Lexington Books

This book is among the first to use a "media events" framework to examine China's Internet activism and politics, and the first study of the transformation of China's media events through the parameter of online activism. The author identifies the major modes of online activism in China (shanzhai [culture jamming]; citizen journalism; and weiguan [mediated mobilization]) into different types of Chinese media events (ritual celebration, natural disaster, political scandal). This contextualized analysis of online activism thus enables exploration of the spatial, temporal and relational dimensions of Chinese online activism with other social agents, such as the Party-state, mainstream media, and civil society. The analysis reveals Internet politics in China on three interrelated levels: the individual, the discursive, and the institutional. Contemporary cases, rich in empirical research data and interdisciplinary theory, demonstrate that alternative and activist use of the Internet has intervened in and transformed conventional Chinese media events of various types of agents, their agendas, and performances, and the subsequent and corresponding political impact. The Party-market controlled Chinese media events have become more open, contentious, and deliberative in the Web 2.0 era due to the active participation of ordinary Chinese people aided by the Internet. [Subject: Media Studies, Chinese Studies]

Media Events in Web 2.0 China: Interventions of Online Activism (The Liverpool Library of Asian & Asian American Studies)

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Liverpool University Press

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Guqin Pieces (Episode 2) (Paperback)

People s Music Publishing House; 1 (July 1. 1983)

Low-carbon Eco-Road Construction Technology (Chinese Edition)

China Communications Press

从零开始学做仓库主管

人民邮电出版社

Intellectual Property Practice Manual(Chinese Edition)

Intellectual Property

Intellectual Property Press

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