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Bernard Shaw´s Bridges to Chinese Culture
Kay Li
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Description for Bernard Shaw´s Bridges to Chinese Culture
Hardback. Series: Bernard Shaw and His Contemporaries. Num Pages: 215 pages, 11 colour illustrations, 10 colour tables, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSG; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 156 x 268 x 19. Weight in Grams: 442.
This book explores the cultural bridges connecting George Bernard Shaw and his contemporaries, such as Charles Dickens and Arthur Miller, to China. Analyzing readings, adaptations, and connections of Shaw in China through the lens of Chinese culture, Li details the negotiations between the focused and culturally specific standpoints of eastern and western culture while also investigating the simultaneously diffused, multi-focal, and comprehensive perspectives that create strategic moments that favor cross-cultural readings. With sources ranging from Shaw's connections with his contemporaries in China to contemporary Chinese films and interpretations of Shaw in the digital space, Li relates the ... Read more
This book explores the cultural bridges connecting George Bernard Shaw and his contemporaries, such as Charles Dickens and Arthur Miller, to China. Analyzing readings, adaptations, and connections of Shaw in China through the lens of Chinese culture, Li details the negotiations between the focused and culturally specific standpoints of eastern and western culture while also investigating the simultaneously diffused, multi-focal, and comprehensive perspectives that create strategic moments that favor cross-cultural readings. With sources ranging from Shaw's connections with his contemporaries in China to contemporary Chinese films and interpretations of Shaw in the digital space, Li relates the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Springer International Publishing AG
Condition
New
Series
Bernard Shaw and His Contemporaries
Number of Pages
215
Place of Publication
Cham, Switzerland
ISBN
9783319410029
SKU
V9783319410029
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Ref
99-15
About Kay Li
Kay Li is Project Leader of the SAGITTARIUS-ORION Digitizing Project on Bernard Shaw funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. Li also serves as Adjunct Professor of English at York University, Canada and as President of Asian Heritage Month-Canadian Foundation for Asian Culture (Central Ontario) Inc. One of the founding members of the International Shaw Society, ... Read more
Reviews for Bernard Shaw´s Bridges to Chinese Culture
In this age of globalism and cross-cultural relations, Li has written a most timely and pertinent book. ... I enjoyed the book very much and recommend it to anyone interested in cross-cultural literary and cultural relations. (Matthew Yde, SHAW The Journal of Bernard Shaw Studies, Vol. 37 (2), 2017)