The Politics of Chinese Language and Culture : the Art of Reading Dragons

Bob (Robert Ian Vere) Hodge, Kam Louie

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Abstract

An innovative text which adopts the tools of cutural studies to provide a fresh approach to the study of Chinese language, culture and society. The book tackles areas such as grammar, language, gender, popuar 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 cutural texts, it will help to break down the boundaries around the ideas and identities of East and West and provide a more relevant anaysis of the Chinese and China.
Original languageEnglish
Place of PublicationU.K
PublisherRoutledge
Number of pages182
ISBN (Print)9780415172653
Publication statusPublished - 1998

Keywords

  • China
  • communism
  • political culture
  • politics and government
  • semiotics

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