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Paperback. Condition: New. Shows how Britain's trans-imperial engagements in the long nineteenth century have come to shape global cultural commodity flows today.Empire of Culture brings together contemporary representations of Victorian Britain to reveal how the nation's imperial past inheres in the ways post-imperial subjects commodify and consume "culture" in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. The globalization of English literature, along with British forms of dress, etiquette, and dining, in the nineteenth century presumed and produced the idea that British culture is a universal standard to which everyone should aspire. Examining neo-Victorian texts and practices from Britain, the United States, Japan, and Singapore-from A. S. Byatt's novel Possession and its Hollywood film adaptation to Japanese Lolita fashion and the Lady Victorian manga series-Waiyee Loh argues that the British heritage industry thrives on the persistence of this idea. Yet this industry also competes and collaborates with the US and Japanese cultural industries, as they, too, engage with the legacy of British universalism to carve out their own empires in a global creative economy. Unique in its scope, Empire of Culture centers Britain's engagements with the US and East Asia to illuminate fresh axes of influence and appropriation, and further bring Victorian studies into contact with various sites of literary and cultural fandom.…

Paperback or Softback. Condition: New. Empire of Culture: Neo-Victorian Narratives in the Global Creative Economy. Book.

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Kartoniert / Broschiert. Condition: New. This volume presents two memoirs by famous men of letters, Reminiscences of the Plum Shadows Convent by Mao Xiang (1611-93) and Miscellaneous Records of Plank Bridge by Yu Huai (1616-96), that recall times spent with courtesans. They evoke the courtesan wor.

Condition: New. &Uumlber den AutorStephen Durrant is professor emeritus of Chinese language and literature, University of Oregon. He is the author of The Cloudy Mirror: Tension and Conflict in the Writings of Sima Qian (State University of New Y.

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Condition: New. Wai-yee Li traces notions of the pleasures and dangers of things in the literature and thought of late imperial China. She considers core oppositions-people and things, elegance and vulgarity, real and fake, lost and found-to tease out the ambiguities of ma.

Condition: New. &Uumlber den AutorWilt L. Idema is professor emeritus of Chinese literature at Harvard University.Wai-yee Li is the 1879 Professor of Chinese Literature at Harvard University.Stephen H. West is Louis Agassiz Emeritus Pro.

Paperback. Condition: New. Shows how Britain's trans-imperial engagements in the long nineteenth century have come to shape global cultural commodity flows today.Empire of Culture brings together contemporary representations of Victorian Britain to reveal how the nation's imperial past inheres in the ways post-imperial subjects commodify and consume "culture" in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. The globalization of English literature, along with British forms of dress, etiquette, and dining, in the nineteenth century presumed and produced the idea that British culture is a universal standard to which everyone should aspire. Examining neo-Victorian texts and practices from Britain, the United States, Japan, and Singapore-from A. S. Byatt's novel Possession and its Hollywood film adaptation to Japanese Lolita fashion and the Lady Victorian manga series-Waiyee Loh argues that the British heritage industry thrives on the persistence of this idea. Yet this industry also competes and collaborates with the US and Japanese cultural industries, as they, too, engage with the legacy of British universalism to carve out their own empires in a global creative economy. Unique in its scope, Empire of Culture centers Britain's engagements with the US and East Asia to illuminate fresh axes of influence and appropriation, and further bring Victorian studies into contact with various sites of literary and cultural fandom.…

Condition: New. InhaltsverzeichnisAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart 1. Historical Plays1. Ji Junxiang, The Zhao Orphan, translated by Pi-twan Huang and Wai-yee LiThe Zhao Orphan in Yuan Editions, by Wai-yee Li2. Anonymous, Tricking Kuai Tong, translated b.

Gebunden. Condition: New. Wai-yee Li traces notions of the pleasures and dangers of things in the literature and thought of late imperial China. She considers core oppositions-people and things, elegance and vulgarity, real and fake, lost and found-to tease out the ambiguities of ma.

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Condition: New. &Uumlber den AutorEdited and introduced by Wilt L. Idema, Wai-yee Li, and Stephen H. WestInhaltsverzeichnisIntroductionTable of Dynasties1. Cracking a Dumb Chan Riddle2. The Mad Drummer..

Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 362 pages. 9.00x6.25x1.25 inches. In Stock.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - Empire of Culture brings together contemporary representations of Victorian Britain to reveal how the nation's imperial past inheres in the ways post-imperial subjects commodify and consume 'culture' in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. The globalization of English literature, along with British forms of dress, etiquette, and dining, in the nineteenth century presumed and produced the idea that British culture is a universal standard to which everyone should aspire. Examining neo-Victorian texts and practices from Britain, the United States, Japan, and Singapore-from A. S. Byatt's novel Possession and its Hollywood film adaptation to Japanese Lolita fashion and the Lady Victorian manga series-Waiyee Loh argues that the British heritage industry thrives on the persistence of this idea. Yet this industry also competes and collaborates with the US and Japanese cultural industries, as they, too, engage with the legacy of British universalism to carve out their own empires in a global creative economy. Unique in its scope, Empire of Culture centers Britain's engagements with the US and East Asia to illuminate fresh axes of influence and appropriation, and further bring Victorian studies into contact with various sites of literary and cultural fandom.…

Condition: New. Dieser Artikel ist ein Print on Demand Artikel und wird nach Ihrer Bestellung fuer Sie gedruckt. &Uumlber den AutorWai-yee LiInhaltsverzeichnisAcknowledgments Fu Rhetoric and the Fictional Imagination Fu Rhetoric and the Feminine Principle The Topos of the Ambiguous Divine Woman The Inward Turn of the To.…

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Empire of Culture | Neo-Victorian Narratives in the Global Creative Economy | Waiyee Loh | Taschenbuch | SUNY series, Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century | Englisch | 2024 | SUNY Press | EAN 9781438498287 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr[at]libri[dot]de | Anbieter: preigu Print on Demand. …

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Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 362 pages. 9.00x6.25x1.25 inches. In Stock. This item is printed on demand.

Buch. Condition: Neu. nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - Shows how Britain's trans-imperial engagements in the long nineteenth century have come to shape global cultural commodity flows today.