Revolution of the Heart: A Genealogy of Love in China, 1900-1950

Author/Contributor(s):	Lee, Haiyan
Publisher:	Stanford University Press
Date:	03/19/2010
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

This book is an engagingly written critical genealogy of the idea of love in modern Chinese literature, thought, and popular culture. It examines a wide range of texts, including literary, historical, philosophical, anthropological, and popular cultural genres from the late imperial period to the beginning of the socialist era. It traces the process by which love became an all-pervasive subject of representation and discourse, as well as a common language in which modern notions of self, gender, family, sexuality, and nation were imagined and contested. Winner of the Association for Asian Studies 2009 Joseph Levenson Book Prize for the best English-language academic book on post-1900 China