Failure, Nationalism, and Literature

Failure, Nationalism, and Literature
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Publisher : Stanford University Press
Total Pages : 354
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ISBN-10 : 0804751765
ISBN-13 : 9780804751766
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Book Synopsis Failure, Nationalism, and Literature by : Jing Tsu

Download or read book Failure, Nationalism, and Literature written by Jing Tsu and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How often do we think of cultural humiliation and failure as strengths? Against prevailing views on what it means to enjoy power as individuals, cultures, or nations, this provocative book looks at the making of cultural and national identities in modern China as building success on failure. It reveals the exercise of sovereign power where we least expect it and shows how this is crucial to our understanding of a modern world of conflict, violence, passionate suffering, and cultural difference.


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