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Author Xiao, Tie

Title Revolutionary Waves The Crowd in Modern China
Published Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Asia Center, 2017

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Description 1 online resource (304 p.)
Series Harvard East Asian Monographs ; v.409
Harvard East Asian monographs.
Contents Intro -- Revolutionary Waves: The Crowd in Modern China -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. The Politics of Psychologizing Qunzhong -- 2. The Lure of the Irrational -- 3. Fictions of Becoming -- 4. Problems of Solitude -- 5. Torrents of Sound -- Epilogue: The Regime of "We" -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index -- Harvard East Asian Monographs
Summary "Revolutionary Waves analyzes the centrality of the crowd in modern Chinese cultural and political imaginary and its global resonances. Bringing together literary studies, intellectual history, critical theory, and scientific history, it highlights unexplored interactions between emerging forms of knowledge, new aesthetic modes of representation, and changing political imperatives"--Provided by publisher
Notes Description based upon print version of record
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-272) and index
Subject Crowds -- China
Crowds -- Political aspects -- China
Crowds in literature.
Civilization
Crowds
Crowds in literature
Intellectual life
SUBJECT China -- Intellectual life -- 1949- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85024147
China -- Civilization -- 1949- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85023999
Subject China
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2016056557
ISBN 9781684175857
1684175852
9780674977167
0674977165