This slim, sharply-argued volume should be a mandatory reading for all of us who work on post-1949 China. China and Orientalism is a refreshing and often eye-opening analysis on how knowledge of the object called “China” has been constructed in the West since the end of Maoism. That knowledge, as Vukovich cogently demonstrates, is fundamentally flawed. Writing as a “barbarian” outside the disciplinary gates— i.e. a self-declared non-sinologist (pp. xii-xiii) —Vukovich argues that, since the late 1970s, Western knowledge production about the PRC has been dominated and defined by a new form of Orientalism. But while for Edward Said the East was the irreducible “other,” the location of the absolute difference, the new Sinological-Orientalism c...
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Why is “eating in Canton” (shi zai Guangzhou) known as the best in China? Seung-joon Lee’s lively an...
In explaining the phenomenon of global interest in Mao Zedong Thought, or Maoism outside China, it i...
A review of literature centered around Chinese culture and people. Originally published in US-China ...
This book argues that there is a new, Sinological form of orientalism at work in the world. It has s...
Mao Zedong may no longer be the sublime object of desire in China, but in recent decades his image h...
At the outset of the final chapter of A Critical Introduction to Mao, Jiang Yihua, a senior Chinese ...
The argument in this book is simple but non-trivial: China encountered the modern world in Japan, es...
The rise of China presents a long-term challenge to the world not only economically, but politically...
This book brings together papers and panel discussions of a conference on Chiang Kai-shek held in Ta...
The future is a hot topic in China; bookstores are full of tomes asserting the 21st century as China...
Superstitious Regimes is an interdisciplinary work that sheds new light on the interaction between t...
Tong Lam’s engaging new study A Passion for Facts analyzes the processes by which modern modes of ap...
Review of From Ming to Ch'ing--Conquest, Region and Continuity in Seventeenth-century China, by Jona...
China at the Crossroads reflects on Chinese political reform and asks whether or not its leaders are...
How China Became Capitalist details the extraordinary, and often unanticipated, journey that China h...
Why is “eating in Canton” (shi zai Guangzhou) known as the best in China? Seung-joon Lee’s lively an...
In explaining the phenomenon of global interest in Mao Zedong Thought, or Maoism outside China, it i...
A review of literature centered around Chinese culture and people. Originally published in US-China ...