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The End of Concern – Maoist China, Activism, and Asian Studies

Autor Fabio Lanza
en Limba Engleză Paperback – oct 2017
Fabio Lanza traces the history of the Committee of Concerned Asian Scholars, a group of politically engaged academics who critiqued the field of Asian studies while looking to Maoist China as an example of alternative politics and the transformation of the meaning of labor and the production of knowledge.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780822369479
ISBN-10: 0822369478
Pagini: 280
Dimensiuni: 151 x 228 x 21 mm
Greutate: 0.39 kg
Editura: MD – Duke University Press

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Acknowledgments ix
Introduction. Of Ends and Beginnings; or, When China Existed 1
1. America's Asia: Discovering China, Rethinking Knowledge 23
2. To Be, or Not to Be, a Scholar: The Praxis of Radicalism in Academia 67
3. Seeing and Understanding: China as the Place of Desire 101
4. Facing Thermidor: Global Maoism at Its End 143
Epilogue. Area Redux: The Destinies of "China" in the 1980s and 1990s 175
Notes 195
Bibliograpy 241
Index 257

Notă biografică

Fabio Lanza is Associate Professor of History and East Asian Studies at the University of Arizona, author of Behind the Gate: Inventing Students in Beijing, and coeditor of De-Centering Cold War History: Local and Global Change.