Carles Prado-Fonts
Biographic Data
| ID | 253149 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Carles Prado-Fonts |
| GIVEN NAMES | Carles |
| FAMILY NAME | Prado-Fonts |
| SIGNATURE | PRADO-FONTS C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universitat Oberta de Catalunya |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0648-9495 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Inventing reality: Obstinate Orientalism in Victor Segalen's René Leys
This article explores how Victor Segalen’s novel René Leys ([1921] 1922) problematizes the ways in which the west has imagined China and how this novel reflects obstinate Orientalism – a stubborn insistence on exoticist fantasies despite their being repeatedly denied by reality. The article argues that, through a portrayal of this obstinacy, René Leys offers a sound critique of the colonial encounter that goes beyond Segalen’s impressionistic ref…
Writing China from the rest of the west: Travels and transculturation in 1920s Spain
Scholarship on the representation of China in the West generally assumes a direct interaction characterized by a colonial dynamics. This article shows what happens when a third agent – neither colonizer nor colonized – enters the picture and looks at two responses from Spanish texts written during the 1920s: whereas Vicente Blasco Ibáñez’s China chapters in his well-known La vuelta al mundo de un novelista [1924] dissolve the Spanish position int…
Disconnecting the Other: Translating China in Spain, Indirectly
In 1931, Editorial Apolo released El enigma del despertar de China, an essay on contemporary China dealing with varied topics such as rituals, traditions, feminism, Christianity, pedagogy, Malthusianism, communism, and literature. The cover announced that it was authored by T. S. H. Thompson and translated by Fabián Casares. But both names were fake. The book, it turns out
Que redundase en beneficio de sus compatriotas: Julio de Larracoechea,Ramonchu en Shanghaiy la China modelable
Julio de Larracoechea served as vice-consul in Shanghai betweeen 1932 and 1936. After the outbreak of the Civil War he returned to Spain and wrote Ramonchu en Shanghai hoping that it would help him recover his post. The novel was published in 1941 and served its purpose. Ramonchu en Shanghai projects a representation of a distant China that favors Larracoechea's agenda and the exaltation of Spanish patriotism at the beginning of Francoism. This a…
I’m a Bannerman, But Bannermen Are Chinese Too: Negotiating Manchu Identity in Lao She’s Teahouse
Lao She’s Teahouse (Chaguan, 1957) is one of the most important plays in modern Chinese literature. Generally contextualised within the Hundred Flowers Movement, scholarship has viewed it as an explicit representation of the historical struggles of modern China, as well as an implicit critique of the political context of the mid-1950s. Such a predominant view on Teahouse is embedded in a discourse of the collective that unites issues of class and…
Disconnecting the Other: Translating China in Spain, Indirectly
In 1931, Editorial Apolo released El enigma del despertar de China, an essay on contemporary China dealing with varied topics such as rituals, traditions, feminism, Christianity, pedagogy, Malthusianism, communism, and literature. The cover announced that it was authored by T. S. H. Thompson and translated by Fabián Casares. But both names were fake. The book, it turns out
Writing China from the rest of the west: Travels and transculturation in 1920s Spain
Scholarship on the representation of China in the West generally assumes a direct interaction characterized by a colonial dynamics. This article shows what happens when a third agent – neither colonizer nor colonized – enters the picture and looks at two responses from Spanish texts written during the 1920s: whereas Vicente Blasco Ibáñez’s China chapters in his well-known La vuelta al mundo de un novelista [1924] dissolve the Spanish position int…
Que redundase en beneficio de sus compatriotas: Julio de Larracoechea,Ramonchu en Shanghaiy la China modelable
Julio de Larracoechea served as vice-consul in Shanghai betweeen 1932 and 1936. After the outbreak of the Civil War he returned to Spain and wrote Ramonchu en Shanghai hoping that it would help him recover his post. The novel was published in 1941 and served its purpose. Ramonchu en Shanghai projects a representation of a distant China that favors Larracoechea's agenda and the exaltation of Spanish patriotism at the beginning of Francoism. This a…
I’m a Bannerman, But Bannermen Are Chinese Too: Negotiating Manchu Identity in Lao She’s Teahouse
Lao She’s Teahouse (Chaguan, 1957) is one of the most important plays in modern Chinese literature. Generally contextualised within the Hundred Flowers Movement, scholarship has viewed it as an explicit representation of the historical struggles of modern China, as well as an implicit critique of the political context of the mid-1950s. Such a predominant view on Teahouse is embedded in a discourse of the collective that unites issues of class and…
Que redundase en beneficio de sus compatriotas: Julio de Larracoechea,Ramonchu en Shanghaiy la China modelable
Julio de Larracoechea served as vice-consul in Shanghai betweeen 1932 and 1936. After the outbreak of the Civil War he returned to Spain and wrote Ramonchu en Shanghai hoping that it would help him recover his post. The novel was published in 1941 and served its purpose. Ramonchu en Shanghai projects a representation of a distant China that favors Larracoechea's agenda and the exaltation of Spanish patriotism at the beginning of Francoism. This a…
Writing China from the rest of the west: Travels and transculturation in 1920s Spain
Scholarship on the representation of China in the West generally assumes a direct interaction characterized by a colonial dynamics. This article shows what happens when a third agent – neither colonizer nor colonized – enters the picture and looks at two responses from Spanish texts written during the 1920s: whereas Vicente Blasco Ibáñez’s China chapters in his well-known La vuelta al mundo de un novelista [1924] dissolve the Spanish position int…
Disconnecting the Other: Translating China in Spain, Indirectly
In 1931, Editorial Apolo released El enigma del despertar de China, an essay on contemporary China dealing with varied topics such as rituals, traditions, feminism, Christianity, pedagogy, Malthusianism, communism, and literature. The cover announced that it was authored by T. S. H. Thompson and translated by Fabián Casares. But both names were fake. The book, it turns out
Inventing reality: Obstinate Orientalism in Victor Segalen's René Leys
This article explores how Victor Segalen’s novel René Leys ([1921] 1922) problematizes the ways in which the west has imagined China and how this novel reflects obstinate Orientalism – a stubborn insistence on exoticist fantasies despite their being repeatedly denied by reality. The article argues that, through a portrayal of this obstinacy, René Leys offers a sound critique of the colonial encounter that goes beyond Segalen’s impressionistic ref…
Political science (5 works) · Art (4 works) · China (3 works) · History (3 works) · History (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Literature (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works)