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Interventions eBook Series

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  • East-Asian Marxisms and Their Trajectories

    Edited by Viren Murthy, Joyce Liu ...
    Series series Interventions
    In this volume, leading scholars from around the world suggest that radical ideologies have shaped complex historical processes in East Asia by examining how intellectuals and activists interpreted, rethought and criticized Marxism in East Asia. The contributors to this volume ask how we can use Marxism to understand East Asia in a global capitalist world, and where the problems that Marxism ... Read more

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    Thinking the World Politically

    by Chantal Mouffe ...
    Political conflict in our society is inevitable, and the results are often far from negative. How then should we deal with the intractable differences arising from complex modern culture?In Agonistics, Mouffe develops her philosophy, taking particular interest in international relations, strategies for radical politics and the politics of artistic practices. In a series of coruscating essays, she ... Read more

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  • Asia as Method

    Toward Deimperialization

    by Kuan-Hsing Chen ...
    Centering his analysis in the dynamic forces of modern East Asian history, Kuan-Hsing Chen recasts cultural studies as a politically urgent global endeavor. He argues that the intellectual and subjective work of decolonization begun across East Asia after the Second World War was stalled by the cold war. At the same time, the work of deimperialization became impossible to imagine in imperial ... Read more

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  • What Is Global History?

    by Sebastian Conrad ...
    The first comprehensive overview of the innovative new discipline of global historyUntil very recently, historians have looked at the past with the tools of the nineteenth century. But globalization has fundamentally altered our ways of knowing, and it is no longer possible to study nations in isolation or to understand world history as emanating from the West. This book reveals why the discipline ... Read more

    PHP1,166.09

  • China and Orientalism

    Western Knowledge Production and the PRC

    by Daniel Vukovich ...
    Series series Postcolonial Politics
    This book argues that there is a new, Sinological form of orientalism at work in the world. It has shifted from a logic of ‘essential difference’ to one of ‘sameness’ or general equivalence. "China" is now in a halting but inevitable process of becoming-the-same as the USA and the West. Orientalism is now closer to the cultural logic of capitalism, even as it shows the afterlives of colonial ... Read more

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  • Aesthetics and Marxism

    Chinese Aesthetic Marxists and Their Western Contemporaries

    by Kang Liu, Stanley Fish, Fredric Jameson ...
    Series series Post-Contemporary Interventions
    Although Chinese Marxism—primarily represented by Maoism—is generally seen by Western intellectuals as monolithic, Liu Kang argues that its practices and projects are as diverse as those in Western Marxism, particularly in the area of aesthetics. In this comparative study of European and Chinese Marxist traditions, Liu reveals the extent to which Chinese Marxists incorporate ideas about aesthetics ... Read more

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  • Postsocialism and Cultural Politics

    China in the Last Decade of the Twentieth Century

    by Xudong Zhang, Stanley Fish, Fredric Jameson ...
    Series series Post-Contemporary Interventions
    In Postsocialism and Cultural Politics, Xudong Zhang offers a critical analysis of China’s “long 1990s,” the tumultuous years between the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown and China’s entry into the World Trade Organization in 2001. The 1990s were marked by Deng Xiaoping’s market-oriented reforms, the Taiwan missile crisis, the Asian financial crisis, and the end of British colonial rule of Hong ... Read more

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  • The Politics of Knowledge in Central Asia

    Science between Marx and the Market

    by Sarah Amsler ...
    Series series Central Asia Research Forum
    Through careful historical and ethnographic research and extensive use of local scholarly works, this book provides a persuasive and careful analysis of the production of knowledge in Central Asia. The author demonstrates that classical theories of science and society are inadequate for understanding the science project in Central Asia. Instead, a critical understanding of local science is more ... Read more

    PHP3,997.36

  • Public Discourses of Contemporary China

    The Narration of the Nation in Popular Literatures, Film, and Television

    by Y. Shen ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Analyzing contemporary Chinese literature, film, and television, Shen shows the significance of nationalism for the mass imagination in post-socialist China. Chapters move from the intellectual idealism of the 1980s, through the post-Tiananmen transition, to the national cinema of the 1990s, and finally to the Internet literature of today. ... Read more

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  • Race and Racism in Russia

    by N. Zakharov ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Race and Racism in Russia identifies the striking changes in racial ideas, practices, exclusions and violence in Russia since the 1990s, revealing how 'Russianness' has become a synonym for racial whiteness. This ground-breaking book provides new theories and substantive insights into race and ethnicity in a Russian context. ... Read more

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  • Postmodernism and China

    by Wang Ning, Anthony D. King, Abidin Kusno, Ping-Hui Liao ...
    Few countries have been so transformed in recent decades as China. With a dynamically growing economy and a rapidly changing social structure, China challenges the West to understand the nature of its modernization. Using postmodernism as both a global frame of periodization and a way to break free from the rigid ideology of westernization as modernity, this volume’s diverse group of contributors ... Read more

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  • The Idea of Communism 3

    The Seoul Conference

    by Alain Badiou, Wang Hui, Cécile Winter, Pun Ngai, Claudia Pozzana, Alessandra Russo, Yong Soon Seo, Ho Duk Hwang, Rosalind C. Morris ...
    In 2009 Slavoj Zizek brought together an acclaimed group of intellectuals to discuss the continued relevance of communism. Unexpectedly the conference attracted an audience of over 1,000 people.The discussion has continued across the world and this book gathers responses from the conference in Seoul. It includes the interventions of regular contributors Alain Badiou and Slavoj Zizek, as well as ... Read more

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