Intransitive Encounter : : Sino-U.S. Literatures and the Limits of Exchange /

Intransitive Encounter : : Sino-U.S. Literatures and the Limits of Exchange / / Nan Da.

Why should the earliest literary encounters between China and the United States—and their critical interpretation—matter now? How can they help us describe cultural exchanges in which nothing substantial is exchanged, at least not in ways that can easily be tracked? All sorts of literary meetings to...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press Complete eBook-Package 2018
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Da, Nan,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2019]
©2018
Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource :; 6 b&w illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • INTRODUCTION. Intransitivity
  • Chapter One. INDIFFERENCE IN THE OPEN
  • Chapter Two. EXTREME REFORMALITY
  • Chapter Three. INCOMMUNICATIVE EXCHANGE
  • Chapter Four. THE THINGS THINGS DO NOT HAVE TO SAY
  • Chapter Five. OPEN BOOKS
  • Chapter Six. HARMLESS EXAGGERATION
  • EPILOGUE. Untracking Encounter
  • Appendix 1. A NOTE ON CHINESE LANGUAGE APPEARANCES IN THE BOOK
  • Appendix 2. LEXICON
  • APPENDIX 3. HISTORICAL MOVEMENTS, TREATIES, ORGANIZATIONS, INSTITUTIONS
  • Appendix 4. CHINESE PRIMARY SOURCES
  • Appendix 5. CHINESE NAMES
  • NOTES
  • INDEX

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