The Politics of Chinese Language and Culture: The Art of Reading Dragons (Culture and Communication in Asia)

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Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 320 EAN: 9780415172660 ISBN: 0415172667 Label: Routledge Manufacturer: Routledge Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 208 Publication Date: 1998-10-15 Publisher: Routledge Studio: Routledge
Editorial Reviews: This book provides a fresh approach to the study of Chinese language, culture and society. It adopts the tools of cultural studies and applies them to a previously conservative discipline. It uses concepts of social semiotics to extend the ideas of language and reading, covering a range of cultural texts. The authors tackle areas such as grammar, language, gender, popular culture, film and the Chinese diaspora. The Politics of Chinese Language and Culture is an engaging, and alternative, means of studying contemporary China. It will help to break down the boundaries around the ideas and identities of East and West and provide a more relevant analysis of the Chinese and China.