Sinologism : an alternative to orientalism and postcolonialism /

Why, for centuries, have the West and the world continuously produced China knowledge that deviates from Chinese realities? Why, since the mid-nineteenth century, have Chinese intellectuals oscillated between commendation and condemnation of their own culture, and between fetishization and demonizat...

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Main Author: Gu, Mingdong, 1955-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Milton Park, Abingdon ; New York : Routledge, 2012
Series:Routledge contemporary China series ; 90.
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Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : Orientalism and beyond
  • Knowledge and cultural unconscious
  • Sinology, Sinologism, and postcolonialism
  • Sinologism : a historical critique
  • The ideology of epistemology
  • The ideology of methodology
  • The ethnic unconscious
  • The political unconscious
  • Linguistic Sinologism
  • Conclusion : a theory of self-conscious reflection.