作者简介
Tie Xiao is Assistant Professor in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at Indiana University.
内容简介
During China’s transition from dynastic empire to nation-state, the crowd emerged as a salient trope. Intellectuals across the ideological spectrum have used the crowd trope to ruminate on questions of selfhood and nationhood, and to advance competing models of en light enment and revolution.
Revolutionary W aves analyzes the centrality of the crowd in the Chinese cultural and political imagination and its global resonances by delving into a wide range of fiction, philosophy, poetry, and psychological studies. Bringing together literary studies, intellectual history, critical theory, and the history of human sciences, this interdisciplinary work highlights une xplore d inter action s among emerging social-scientific forms of knowl edge , new aesthetic modes of representation, and changing political imperatives. The work brings into relief the complexities of the modern Chinese crowd discourse, which generated subjectivities and oriented actions, enabled as well as constrained the express ion of togetherness, and thus both expanded and limited the horizon of political possibilities in the emerging age of mass politics.
The first in-depth examination of the aesthetics and politics of the crowd in modern Chinese literature and thought, Revolutionary Waves raises questions about the promise and peril of comm unit y as communion and reimagines collective life in China’s post-socia list present.
Tie Xiao is Assistant Professor in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at Indiana University.
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