Christopher J Lee
Biographic Data
| ID | 3595082 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christopher J Lee |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christopher J |
| FAMILY NAME | Lee |
| SIGNATURE | LEE C J |
| AFFILIATIONS | History and Africana Studies, Lafayette CollegeTranslated into Chinese from the original English by Wei Tan, Peking University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
"Decolonizing "China-Africa Relations: Toward a New Ethos of Afro-Asianism
China–Africa relations have been a problem and an opportunity. On the one hand, this topic has presented an opportunity to rethink the territorial parameters of African studies by decentering the A
Making a World after Empire: The Bandung Moment and Its Political Afterlives
Assessment of Caregiving Constructs: Toward a Personal, Familial, Group, and Cultural Construction of Dementia Care through the Eyes of Personal Construct Psychology
Unreasonable Histories: Nativism, Multiracial Lives, and the Genealogical Imagination in British Africa
In Unreasonable Histories, Christopher J. Lee unsettles the parameters and content of African studies as currently understood. At the book's core are the experiences of multiracial Africans in British Central Africa{u2014}contemporary Malawi, Zimbabwe, and Zambia{u2014}from the 1910s to the 1960s. Drawing on a spectrum of evidence{u2014}including organizational documents, court records, personal letters, commission reports, popular periodicals, p…
Books: Review Forum
Sovereignty, Neoliberalism, and the Postdiasporic Politics of Globalization: A Conversation about South Africa with Patrick Bond, Ashwin Desai, and Molefi Mafereka ka Ndlovu
This article is an interview with Patrick Bond, Ashwin Desai, and Molefi Mafereka na Ndlovu, who are based at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. It was recorded in June 2007
The Contributions of Activity and Occupation to Young Children's Comprehension of Picture Books
This article provides an empirical examination of current conceptions of activity and occupation by analyzing factors affecting children's comprehension of a picture book. Childhood activities are depicted prominently in picture books, and given that children are believed to rely extensively on personal experience when interpreting stories, it is reasonable to expect children's experience of engaging in these activities to play an important role …
The Differential Role of Ridicule in Sarcasm and Irony
Kreuz and Glucksberg (1989) argued that sarcasm and irony are similar in that both are forms of reminder, yet different in that sarcasm conveys ridicule of a specific victim whereas irony does not. This article reports two experiments that provide empirical evidence of this relation. In both experiments, undergraduates read a series of passages. One group rated a target utterance in terms of the extent to which it was a good example of sarcasm, a…
The Role of Authorial Intent in Determining Verbal Irony and Metaphor
Three groups of participants rated the authorial intent to endorse or reject the truth-value, the degree of irony, or metaphoricity of target utterances contained in brief anecdotes. Target utterances could be interpreted either literally or figuratively; a figurative resemblance was suggested by having the utterance echo an earlier usage. The anecdotes manipulated (a) congruence of the utterance with observational fact and (b) audience type. Typ…
"Decolonizing "China-Africa Relations: Toward a New Ethos of Afro-Asianism
China–Africa relations have been a problem and an opportunity. On the one hand, this topic has presented an opportunity to rethink the territorial parameters of African studies by decentering the A
The Role of Authorial Intent in Determining Verbal Irony and Metaphor
Three groups of participants rated the authorial intent to endorse or reject the truth-value, the degree of irony, or metaphoricity of target utterances contained in brief anecdotes. Target utterances could be interpreted either literally or figuratively; a figurative resemblance was suggested by having the utterance echo an earlier usage. The anecdotes manipulated (a) congruence of the utterance with observational fact and (b) audience type. Typ…
The Differential Role of Ridicule in Sarcasm and Irony
Kreuz and Glucksberg (1989) argued that sarcasm and irony are similar in that both are forms of reminder, yet different in that sarcasm conveys ridicule of a specific victim whereas irony does not. This article reports two experiments that provide empirical evidence of this relation. In both experiments, undergraduates read a series of passages. One group rated a target utterance in terms of the extent to which it was a good example of sarcasm, a…
The Contributions of Activity and Occupation to Young Children's Comprehension of Picture Books
This article provides an empirical examination of current conceptions of activity and occupation by analyzing factors affecting children's comprehension of a picture book. Childhood activities are depicted prominently in picture books, and given that children are believed to rely extensively on personal experience when interpreting stories, it is reasonable to expect children's experience of engaging in these activities to play an important role …
Sovereignty, Neoliberalism, and the Postdiasporic Politics of Globalization: A Conversation about South Africa with Patrick Bond, Ashwin Desai, and Molefi Mafereka ka Ndlovu
This article is an interview with Patrick Bond, Ashwin Desai, and Molefi Mafereka na Ndlovu, who are based at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. It was recorded in June 2007
Books: Review Forum
Unreasonable Histories: Nativism, Multiracial Lives, and the Genealogical Imagination in British Africa
In Unreasonable Histories, Christopher J. Lee unsettles the parameters and content of African studies as currently understood. At the book's core are the experiences of multiracial Africans in British Central Africa{u2014}contemporary Malawi, Zimbabwe, and Zambia{u2014}from the 1910s to the 1960s. Drawing on a spectrum of evidence{u2014}including organizational documents, court records, personal letters, commission reports, popular periodicals, p…
Assessment of Caregiving Constructs: Toward a Personal, Familial, Group, and Cultural Construction of Dementia Care through the Eyes of Personal Construct Psychology
Making a World after Empire: The Bandung Moment and Its Political Afterlives
"Decolonizing "China-Africa Relations: Toward a New Ethos of Afro-Asianism
China–Africa relations have been a problem and an opportunity. On the one hand, this topic has presented an opportunity to rethink the territorial parameters of African studies by decentering the A
Psychology (4 works) · Linguistics (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Africa (2 works) · Comprehension (2 works) · Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics (2 works) · History (2 works) · History (2 works) · Irony (2 works) · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (2 works)