. 1. Occidentalism as a counter-discourse : He shang controversy -- 2. Occidentalist theater : Shakespeare, Ibsen, and Brecht as counter others -- 3. "Misunderstanding" Western modernism : the Menglong movement -- 4. A wildman between the Orient and the Occident : Retro-influence in comparative literary studies -- 5. Wilder, Mei Langfang and Huang Zuolin : a "Suggestive theater" revisited -- 6. Fathers and daughters in early modern Chinese drama : On the problematics of occidentalism in cross-cultural/gender perspective
Summary
Xiaomei Chen offers an insightful account of the unremittingly favorable depiction of Western culture and its negative characterization of Chinese culture in post-Mao China from 1978-1988. Chen examines the cultural and political interrelations between the East and West from a vantage point more complex than that accommodated by most current theories of Western imperialism and colonialism. Going beyond Edward Said's construction in Orientalism of cross-cultural appropriations as a defining facet of Western imperialism, Chen argues that the appropriation of Western discourse--what she calls "Oc
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-232) and index
