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Boundaries in China (Critical Views) Paperback - 1997
by Hay, John
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- Title Boundaries in China (Critical Views)
- Author Hay, John
- Binding Paperback
- Edition First Thus
- Condition Used - Good
- Pages 360
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Reaktion Books, London
- Date June 1, 1997
- Features Bibliography
- Bookseller's Inventory # 0948462388.G
- ISBN 9780948462382 / 0948462388
- Weight 1.43 lbs (0.65 kg)
- Dimensions 9.21 x 6.16 x 1.3 in (23.39 x 15.65 x 3.30 cm)
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Themes
- Cultural Region: Asian - General
- Library of Congress subjects China - Civilization, Art and society - China
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 93150009
- Dewey Decimal Code 951
From the rear cover
Boundary making, a crucial element in human cultural creativity, links these essays exploring Chinese art and society. Traversing time and cultural category, individual expression and social construct, the authors demonstrate how a 'boundary' may exist simultaneously as barrier, threshold and interface. The essays range from the creation of the first political and bureaucratic boundaries in early China, to the dismantling of discursive boundaries in the post-Mao era. Spanning diverse subjects, moving between ancient funerary art and the tension between self and image in modern Peking Opera, they deftly explore the psychodynamics of Chinese society. All the authors in this book are established Sinologists. Boundaries in China will be stimulating reading for anyone interested to see how the seemingly tangential or peripheral can turn out to be of central concern in non-Western (and perhaps also Western) art and culture.