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Chinas Unlimited offers a comprehensive socio-cultural examination of how China and Chineseness have been represented historically over the past century. This Routledge publication explores the Orientalizing ideologies and racist frameworks that have shaped Western perceptions of China across both popular culture and scientific discourse. The book critically analyses the foundations of these imaginaries, revealing how misconceptions have been embedded in Western thought and institutions. By tracing these representations through time, the work provides readers with essential context for understanding contemporary attitudes towards China and Chinese identity, making it valuable for students, academics, and anyone seeking to deconstruct Eurocentric narratives and develop a more nuanced understanding of China's actual complexities beyond stereotypical depictions.

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Chinas Unlimited examines the historical trajectory of China representation in Western imagination over approximately one hundred years.

The book critically deconstructs Orientalizing ideologies that have fundamentally shaped how Western academia and popular culture perceive China.

Published by Routledge, this socio-cultural study grounds its analysis in the racist foundations underlying conventional Western understandings of Chineseness.

The work challenges both scientific and popular Western discourses about China by exposing the ideological mechanisms that constructed these narratives.

Readers gain essential frameworks for recognizing and questioning embedded assumptions about China that pervade Western institutions and everyday thinking.

Product Specifications
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Routledge
Format
hardcover
ASIN
0700714928
Category
Books > Subjects > Science, Nature & Maths > Earth Sciences
Domain
Amazon UK
Release Date
07 November 2002
Listed Since
10 February 2007

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