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The body and modernity in China

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A useful point of entry into an understanding of modernization in China is through the reconstitutions of the body in the Chinese cultural and political context. The female body in the Chinese context continues to be the site of violence, oppression, and liberation in the multifarious formations of patriarchal authority, cultural iconoclasm, revolutionary hegemony, and nationalism with heightened.

Author: Li Shiqiao
Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc.
Publication Name: Theory, Culture & Society
Subject: Social sciences
ISSN: 0263-2764
Year: 2006
Public affairs, Social aspects, Political culture, Modernism, Chinese culture

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Translation in China

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Contemporary researchers divide Chinese translation practices into four or five peak periods, each of which has emphasized different genres of writing. The cultural effects of translations during these periods function differently, especially in the politico-ethical significance for the translator, the text and the context.

Author: Fan Jinghua
Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc.
Publication Name: Theory, Culture & Society
Subject: Social sciences
ISSN: 0263-2764
Year: 2006
Analysis, Translating and interpreting, Translation (Languages), Discourse analysis, Anthropological linguistics

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Mapping film piracy in China

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The most crucial yet often-overlooked links in global film processes that is piracy is examined and the operation of film piracy networks in Greater China is focused. Empirical accounts of specific links and connections on and between the intersecting distribution and piracy networks are presented.

Author: Wang, Shujen, Zhu, Jonathan J. H.
Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc.
Publication Name: Theory, Culture & Society
Subject: Social sciences
ISSN: 0263-2764
Year: 2003
Evaluation, Piracy (Copyright)

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Subjects list: China, History
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