Ban Wang
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3586345 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Ban Wang |
| NOMBRES | Ban |
| APELLIDO | Wang |
| FIRMA | WANG B |
| AFILIACIONES | Stanford University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2880-9752 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 24 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 15 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 21 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 3 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1997 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2022 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
China in the World
In China in the World, Ban Wang traces the evolution of modern China from the late nineteenth century to the present. With a focus on tensions and connections between national formation and international outlooks, Wang shows how ancient visions persist even as China has adopted and revised the Western nation-state form. The concept of tianxia, meaning “all under heaven,” has constantly been updated into modern outlooks that value unity, equality,…
The Clash of Civilization and World Community
To claim that East and West can never meet is to make a false claim. But in recent years, the myth of civilizational clash has become the currency of international relations and cross-cultural understanding. This stance spawns the stale but fake news that China and the West are locked in a collision course over civilizational norms—individualism vs. authoritarianism, state capitalism vs. neoliberalism, democracy vs. autocracy. This view is in the…
Aesthetics, Morality, and the Modern Community
In Mao's era, China's policy makers and intellectuals viewed aesthetic experience and thought as handmaidens in the service of the political order. As China opened up and engaged more intensely with modern traditions of the West, aesthetic thinkers such as Li Zehou critiqued the subordinated role of aesthetics and reasserted notions of aesthetic autonomy and liberal humanism, calling for the separation of arts and literature from political, socia…
Colonialism, Inherited Rights, and Social Movements of Self-Protection
Modern political and social movements in China must be seen as acts of self-protection against the aggression of the capitalist state, which is driven by colonialism and imperialism. The Chinese Revolution arose in the global movement of self-protection in defense of people&s;s inherited rights. The Qing dynasty&s;s demise in the period of expansive western powers went together with the erosion of China&s;s agrarian economy. The introduction of c…
Confucianism and Nature
In recent decades, environmental writers have been turning to Chinese traditions of thought for ecological wisdom. Challenging the anthropocentric worldview that privileges human dominion over nature, they have recovered from Chinese classics alternative concepts regarding humanity's reciprocal relations with the natural world. Buddhism and Taoism, the most suitable candidates for this search, articulate cosmologies in which all life forms are em…
Chinese Visions of World Order
Passion and Politics in Revolution
By addressing the sex-centered mode in psychoanalytical criticism and by tracing certain fraught moments in Ding Ling’s fiction, this chapter suggests that private love can be an integral part of collective solidarity, that unconscious drives can propel the impulse for social change, and that libidinal energy can fuel political passion and collective action. Following Marcuse and Castoriadis, who enlist psychoanalysis for a socially transformativ…
Debating the Socialist Legacy and Capitalist Globalization in China
The first English collection of translated essays, by Chinese literary scholars, writers, and critics, this volume focuses on the legacy of socialist culture and post-socialist phenomena within the co
From Burke and Wordsworth to the Modern Sublime in Chinese Literature
Photographical History, Everyday Life, and Memory
Postmodernists view all reality as representation and visual spectacle. This essay challenges this claim through film analysis of third world cinema and by tracing the tension between photography and history to the earlier debate of modernity in Siegfried Kracauer's work. The essay goes on to show the possibility of historically grounded visual images. By looking at the Chinese novelist Wang Anyi's photo narratives, the essay argues for a photogr…
Words and Their Stories
As China joins the capitalist world economy, the problems of social disintegration that gave rise to the earlier revolutionary social movements are becoming pressing. Instead of viewing the Chinese Revolution as an academic study, these essays suggest that the motifs of the Revolution are still alive and relevant. The slogan “Farewell to Revolution” that obscures the revolutionary language is premature. In spite of dislocations and ruptures in th…
Human Rights, Revolutionary Legacy, and Politics in China
In understanding rights across cultures, critics tend to view individual or human rights as unique to the West and alien to community-based or authoritarian Eastern cultures. This essay challenges this fetishism of individual rights by tracing social and intellectual movements in the West that contested the absolutism of individual rights based on ownership of private property, and by pointing to the erosion of individual property rights in the r…
The Cold War, Imperial Aesthetics, And Area Studies
In my local library in East Brunswick, New Jersey, military artifacts, weapons, and photos are on prominent display as a reminder of the days of the world wars, the military interventions of the postwar era, and the sacrifice of young men who grew up in local neighborhoods. If you want to know Chinese culture and history, you have no difficulty finding about thirty or forty books just a few steps away. These books can be readily divided into two …
In Search of Real-Life Images in China
This essay re-examines new realism in documentary film and photography in China. Distinct from official realism, genuine realism requires that experience be seen within its real environment and characters and actions of a realist work be shaped by that environment. This principle challenges the visual regime of spectacle controlled by the expanding global cultural industry. Documentary realism represents a penetrating social comment but also reco…
Discovering Enlightenment in Chinese History
Research Article| May 01 2007 Discovering Enlightenment in Chinese History: The Rise of Modern Chinese Thought, by Wang Hui Ban Wang Ban Wang Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google boundary 2 (2007) 34 (2): 217–238. https://doi.org/10.1215/01903659-2007-010 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Ban Wang; Discovering Enlightenment in Chinese History: The Rise of Modern…
The Clash of Empires
Book Review| March 01 2006 The Clash of Empires: The Invention of China in Modern World Making The Clash of Empires: The Invention of China in Modern World Making. By Lydia Liu. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2004. 318 p. Ban Wang Ban Wang Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Literature (2006) 58 (2): 177–180. https://doi.org/10.1215/-58-2-177 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email …
History in a mythical key
Ruptures of the social fabrics accompany China's rapid pace of development and its integration into the global market, severing the connection between cultural memory and history. Increasingly abstracted into economic, administrative, and exchange processes, the matrix of meaning and values that used to connect individuals to society and the past to the present has lost its self-evidence and cohesive power. In the emergent society of consumption …
Love at Last Sight
Research Article| August 01 2002 Love at Last Sight: Nostalgia, Commodity, and Temporality in Wang Anyi'ssong of Unending Sorrow Ban Wang Ban Wang Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google positions (2002) 10 (3): 669–694. https://doi.org/10.1215/10679847-10-3-669 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Ban Wang; Love at Last Sight: Nostalgia, Commodity, and Temporality in…
The Cold War, Imperial Aesthetics, and Area Studies
Social Text - 72 (Volume 20, Number 3), Fall 2002
Memory, Narcissism, and Sublimation
In The Freud Journal, Lou Andreas-Salomé (1987) jotted down her thoughts while studying with Freud in Vienna from 1912 to 1913. A strand of her thought was strongly directed to the question of memory against the background of modernity. In this essay I trace her notions of memory, narcissistic love, and sublimation in the journal. Salomé's reflections on these issues projected a vital, creative dimension repressed in the mainstream psychoanalytic…
The Sublime Figure of History
Chinese Modernism in the Era of Reforms
Translingual Practice
The Sublime Figure of History
Through a comparative analysis of diverse texts and contexts, this book offers a cultural history of the interplay between the aesthetic and the political in the formation of personal and collective identity that crystallizes into the Chinese aesthetic of the sublime. It describes how various kinds of politics are aestheticized and how aesthetic manifestations are bound up with prevalent ideologies and politics. In this book, politics refers to v…
The Cold War, Imperial Aesthetics, and Area Studies
Social Text - 72 (Volume 20, Number 3), Fall 2002
Aesthetics, Morality, and the Modern Community
In Mao's era, China's policy makers and intellectuals viewed aesthetic experience and thought as handmaidens in the service of the political order. As China opened up and engaged more intensely with modern traditions of the West, aesthetic thinkers such as Li Zehou critiqued the subordinated role of aesthetics and reasserted notions of aesthetic autonomy and liberal humanism, calling for the separation of arts and literature from political, socia…
Human Rights, Revolutionary Legacy, and Politics in China
In understanding rights across cultures, critics tend to view individual or human rights as unique to the West and alien to community-based or authoritarian Eastern cultures. This essay challenges this fetishism of individual rights by tracing social and intellectual movements in the West that contested the absolutism of individual rights based on ownership of private property, and by pointing to the erosion of individual property rights in the r…
Love at Last Sight
Research Article| August 01 2002 Love at Last Sight: Nostalgia, Commodity, and Temporality in Wang Anyi'ssong of Unending Sorrow Ban Wang Ban Wang Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google positions (2002) 10 (3): 669–694. https://doi.org/10.1215/10679847-10-3-669 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Ban Wang; Love at Last Sight: Nostalgia, Commodity, and Temporality in…
Photographical History, Everyday Life, and Memory
Postmodernists view all reality as representation and visual spectacle. This essay challenges this claim through film analysis of third world cinema and by tracing the tension between photography and history to the earlier debate of modernity in Siegfried Kracauer's work. The essay goes on to show the possibility of historically grounded visual images. By looking at the Chinese novelist Wang Anyi's photo narratives, the essay argues for a photogr…
Discovering Enlightenment in Chinese History
Research Article| May 01 2007 Discovering Enlightenment in Chinese History: The Rise of Modern Chinese Thought, by Wang Hui Ban Wang Ban Wang Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google boundary 2 (2007) 34 (2): 217–238. https://doi.org/10.1215/01903659-2007-010 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Ban Wang; Discovering Enlightenment in Chinese History: The Rise of Modern…
Translingual Practice
The Sublime Figure of History
Through a comparative analysis of diverse texts and contexts, this book offers a cultural history of the interplay between the aesthetic and the political in the formation of personal and collective identity that crystallizes into the Chinese aesthetic of the sublime. It describes how various kinds of politics are aestheticized and how aesthetic manifestations are bound up with prevalent ideologies and politics. In this book, politics refers to v…
The Sublime Figure of History
Chinese Modernism in the Era of Reforms
Memory, Narcissism, and Sublimation
In The Freud Journal, Lou Andreas-Salomé (1987) jotted down her thoughts while studying with Freud in Vienna from 1912 to 1913. A strand of her thought was strongly directed to the question of memory against the background of modernity. In this essay I trace her notions of memory, narcissistic love, and sublimation in the journal. Salomé's reflections on these issues projected a vital, creative dimension repressed in the mainstream psychoanalytic…
Love at Last Sight
Research Article| August 01 2002 Love at Last Sight: Nostalgia, Commodity, and Temporality in Wang Anyi'ssong of Unending Sorrow Ban Wang Ban Wang Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google positions (2002) 10 (3): 669–694. https://doi.org/10.1215/10679847-10-3-669 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Ban Wang; Love at Last Sight: Nostalgia, Commodity, and Temporality in…
The Cold War, Imperial Aesthetics, and Area Studies
Social Text - 72 (Volume 20, Number 3), Fall 2002
History in a mythical key
Ruptures of the social fabrics accompany China's rapid pace of development and its integration into the global market, severing the connection between cultural memory and history. Increasingly abstracted into economic, administrative, and exchange processes, the matrix of meaning and values that used to connect individuals to society and the past to the present has lost its self-evidence and cohesive power. In the emergent society of consumption …
The Clash of Empires
Book Review| March 01 2006 The Clash of Empires: The Invention of China in Modern World Making The Clash of Empires: The Invention of China in Modern World Making. By Lydia Liu. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2004. 318 p. Ban Wang Ban Wang Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Literature (2006) 58 (2): 177–180. https://doi.org/10.1215/-58-2-177 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email …
Discovering Enlightenment in Chinese History
Research Article| May 01 2007 Discovering Enlightenment in Chinese History: The Rise of Modern Chinese Thought, by Wang Hui Ban Wang Ban Wang Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google boundary 2 (2007) 34 (2): 217–238. https://doi.org/10.1215/01903659-2007-010 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Ban Wang; Discovering Enlightenment in Chinese History: The Rise of Modern…
In Search of Real-Life Images in China
This essay re-examines new realism in documentary film and photography in China. Distinct from official realism, genuine realism requires that experience be seen within its real environment and characters and actions of a realist work be shaped by that environment. This principle challenges the visual regime of spectacle controlled by the expanding global cultural industry. Documentary realism represents a penetrating social comment but also reco…
The Cold War, Imperial Aesthetics, And Area Studies
In my local library in East Brunswick, New Jersey, military artifacts, weapons, and photos are on prominent display as a reminder of the days of the world wars, the military interventions of the postwar era, and the sacrifice of young men who grew up in local neighborhoods. If you want to know Chinese culture and history, you have no difficulty finding about thirty or forty books just a few steps away. These books can be readily divided into two …
Words and Their Stories
As China joins the capitalist world economy, the problems of social disintegration that gave rise to the earlier revolutionary social movements are becoming pressing. Instead of viewing the Chinese Revolution as an academic study, these essays suggest that the motifs of the Revolution are still alive and relevant. The slogan “Farewell to Revolution” that obscures the revolutionary language is premature. In spite of dislocations and ruptures in th…
Human Rights, Revolutionary Legacy, and Politics in China
In understanding rights across cultures, critics tend to view individual or human rights as unique to the West and alien to community-based or authoritarian Eastern cultures. This essay challenges this fetishism of individual rights by tracing social and intellectual movements in the West that contested the absolutism of individual rights based on ownership of private property, and by pointing to the erosion of individual property rights in the r…
From Burke and Wordsworth to the Modern Sublime in Chinese Literature
Photographical History, Everyday Life, and Memory
Postmodernists view all reality as representation and visual spectacle. This essay challenges this claim through film analysis of third world cinema and by tracing the tension between photography and history to the earlier debate of modernity in Siegfried Kracauer's work. The essay goes on to show the possibility of historically grounded visual images. By looking at the Chinese novelist Wang Anyi's photo narratives, the essay argues for a photogr…
Debating the Socialist Legacy and Capitalist Globalization in China
The first English collection of translated essays, by Chinese literary scholars, writers, and critics, this volume focuses on the legacy of socialist culture and post-socialist phenomena within the co
Passion and Politics in Revolution
By addressing the sex-centered mode in psychoanalytical criticism and by tracing certain fraught moments in Ding Ling’s fiction, this chapter suggests that private love can be an integral part of collective solidarity, that unconscious drives can propel the impulse for social change, and that libidinal energy can fuel political passion and collective action. Following Marcuse and Castoriadis, who enlist psychoanalysis for a socially transformativ…
Chinese Visions of World Order
Colonialism, Inherited Rights, and Social Movements of Self-Protection
Modern political and social movements in China must be seen as acts of self-protection against the aggression of the capitalist state, which is driven by colonialism and imperialism. The Chinese Revolution arose in the global movement of self-protection in defense of people&s;s inherited rights. The Qing dynasty&s;s demise in the period of expansive western powers went together with the erosion of China&s;s agrarian economy. The introduction of c…
Confucianism and Nature
In recent decades, environmental writers have been turning to Chinese traditions of thought for ecological wisdom. Challenging the anthropocentric worldview that privileges human dominion over nature, they have recovered from Chinese classics alternative concepts regarding humanity's reciprocal relations with the natural world. Buddhism and Taoism, the most suitable candidates for this search, articulate cosmologies in which all life forms are em…
Aesthetics, Morality, and the Modern Community
In Mao's era, China's policy makers and intellectuals viewed aesthetic experience and thought as handmaidens in the service of the political order. As China opened up and engaged more intensely with modern traditions of the West, aesthetic thinkers such as Li Zehou critiqued the subordinated role of aesthetics and reasserted notions of aesthetic autonomy and liberal humanism, calling for the separation of arts and literature from political, socia…
China in the World
In China in the World, Ban Wang traces the evolution of modern China from the late nineteenth century to the present. With a focus on tensions and connections between national formation and international outlooks, Wang shows how ancient visions persist even as China has adopted and revised the Western nation-state form. The concept of tianxia, meaning “all under heaven,” has constantly been updated into modern outlooks that value unity, equality,…
The Clash of Civilization and World Community
To claim that East and West can never meet is to make a false claim. But in recent years, the myth of civilizational clash has become the currency of international relations and cross-cultural understanding. This stance spawns the stale but fake news that China and the West are locked in a collision course over civilizational norms—individualism vs. authoritarianism, state capitalism vs. neoliberalism, democracy vs. autocracy. This view is in the…
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