The Hypothetical Mandarin : Sympathy, Modernity, and Chinese Pain.

The Hypothetical Mandarin : Sympathy, Modernity, and Chinese Pain.

Why has the West for so long and in so many different ways expressed the idea that the Chinese have a special relationship to cruelty and to physical pain? What can the history of that idea and its expressions teach us about the politics of the West's contemporary relation to China? And what do...

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Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford Scholarship Online 2009.
Series:Modernist literature & culture.
Subjects:
Sympathy > Moral and ethical aspects > History.
HISTORY.
Civilization.
Civilization > Chinese influences
Literature
Europe > Civilization > Chinese influences.
China > In literature.
China
Europe
History
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Table of Contents:
  • Series Editors' Foreword; Introduction: The Hypothetical Mandarin; 1. Anecdotal Theory: Edmund Scott, Exact Discourse (1606); Stephen Greenblatt, Learning to Curse (1990); 2. The Compassion Trade: Punishment, Costume, Sympathy, 1800-1801; 3. The Chinese Body in Pain: American Missionary Medical Care, 1838-1852; 4. Chinese Bodies, Chinese Futures: The "Coolie" in Late Nineteenth-Century America; 5. Bertrand Russell's Chinese Eyes; or, Modernism's Double Vision; 6. Ideologies of the Anesthetic: Acupuncture, Photography, and the Material Image.
  • 7. Closures: Three Examples in Search of a ConclusionIndex; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; V; W; Y; Z.

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