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The Politics of Chinese Language and Culture: The art of reading dragons

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An innovative text which adopts the tools of cultural studies to provide a fresh approach to the study of Chinese language, culture and society. The book tackles areas such as grammar, language, gender, popular culture, film and the Chinese diaspora and employs the concepts of social semiotics to extend the ideas of language and reading. Covering a range of cultural texts, 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.

Author(s): Bob Hodge; Kam Louie
Series: Culture and communication in Asia
Edition: 1
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 1998

Language: English
Commentary: True PDF
Pages: 182

Front Cover
The Politics of Chinese Language and Culture
Copyright Page
Contents
List of figures
Series editor's foreword
Preface
1. How to Read Dragons: the politics of understanding
Chinese culture
2.
Reading style: interacting the Chinese way
3. Writing and the ideological machine: Chinese
characters and the construction of gender
4. Grammar as ideology: critical linguistics and the
politics of syntax
5. Living with double-think: ambiguity in discourse and
grammar
6.
The cult of the hero: masculinity and popular culture
7.
Breaking the square: film and representations of China
Bibliography
Index