Sheldon Lu
Biographic Data
| ID | 3681485 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sheldon Lu |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sheldon |
| FAMILY NAME | Lu |
| SIGNATURE | LU S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Introduction
The theme of this special issue of Telos is the modern city in world cinema. Its various essays examine the depiction of cities and their constitutive contexts through the lens of critical theory, political theory, cultural theory, and film theory. The contributors tackle a range of topics: the experience of modernity in urban contexts; cities in relation to civil society and the public sphere; the metropolis and cosmopolitanism; the urban/rural …
Commentary
This commentary begins with a review of the status and development of the burgeoning field of environmental humanities, of which ecocriticism (literature and environment studies) is an important subfield. The authors call for more attention to environmental humanities on a global scale, beyond the confines of Western academia. The second part of the commentary discusses the individual essays collected in this special issue of Comparative Literatu…
Introduction
This article is a short introduction to the genealogy, theory and practice of Chinese ecocinema. It situates Chinese ecocinema in the broad context of a general ecological and environmental turn in contemporary humanistic and cultural studies. The article pays close attention to contemporary Chinese-language documentaries that embrace an ecological consciousness. Furthermore, the article zeroes in on a specific Taiwanese documentary: My Fancy Hig…
Cosmopolitanism and Alternative Modernity in Twentieth-Century China
My essay joins the revisionist project of rewriting modern Chinese intellectual history. The historiography of modern China usually foregrounds the theme of nationalism in the grand narrative of China's arduous struggles for liberation, anti-imperialism, anti-colonialism, and anti-capitalism. Radical breaks from the Chinese tradition or from the outside world have occurred in the form of a series of earth-shaking revolutions throughout the twenti…
Re-visioning Global Modernity through the Prism of China
This essay reviews and assesses recent attempts to revisit and revise the position of China in the configuration of global modernity. Such re-descriptions question the implicit Eurocentric teleology of modern world history. First, the discourse of East Asian modernity or Confucian capitalism draws on late imperial (early modern) East Asia to locate an alternative origin of global modernity. Second, recent scholarship in world-systems analysis rep…
Beyond Sinology
Book Review| September 01 2014 Beyond Sinology: Chinese Writing and the Scripts of Culture Beyond Sinology: Chinese Writing and the Scripts of Culture. By Bachner, Andrea. New York: Columbia University Press, 2014. 282 p. Sheldon Lu Sheldon Lu Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Literature (2014) 66 (3): 371–373. https://doi.org/10.1215/00104124-2773720 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn M…
I Ching and the origin of the Chinese semiotic tradition
This article explores the semiotic thought of I Ching (Book of Changes). This Confucian canon and the subsequent commentaries on it constitute the origin and one of the most important legacies of traditional Chinese theories of the sign. A central notion of I Ching is xiang — variously translated as ‘sign,’ or ‘image.’ The author approaches the idea of the ‘sign’ in I Ching and the later exegetical tradition in four aspects: 1) definition of the …
History, Memory, Nostalgia
This study will focus on a cluster of new films and television dramas that revisit and rewrite the history of Chinese socialism from a different point of view in light of the capitalist frenzy of commercialism and commodification in contemporary post-socialist China. It seems that it is only possible after some 20 years, after the historical wounds and traumas have been largely healed, that a new critical distance can be reached in regard to the …
Beautiful Violence
Commentary| August 01 2004 Beautiful Violence: War, Peace, Globalization Sheldon Lu Sheldon Lu Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google positions (2004) 12 (3): 759–771. https://doi.org/10.1215/10679847-12-3-759 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Sheldon Lu; Beautiful Violence: War, Peace, Globalization. positions 1 August 2004; 12 (3): 759–771. doi: https://doi.org/…
The Cinema of Hong Kong
The Cinema of Hong Kong examines one of the most popular, dynamic, and important cinema traditions in the history of film. Providing an overview of major directors, genres, and stars, from its origins to the present, this volume examines Hong Kong cinema in historical, transnational, cultural and political contexts. Individual chapters focus on Hong Kong cinema before and during World War II, the cinema of the turbulent 1960s, its rise to world p…
Cosmopolitanism and Alternative Modernity in Twentieth-Century China
My essay joins the revisionist project of rewriting modern Chinese intellectual history. The historiography of modern China usually foregrounds the theme of nationalism in the grand narrative of China's arduous struggles for liberation, anti-imperialism, anti-colonialism, and anti-capitalism. Radical breaks from the Chinese tradition or from the outside world have occurred in the form of a series of earth-shaking revolutions throughout the twenti…
Beautiful Violence
Commentary| August 01 2004 Beautiful Violence: War, Peace, Globalization Sheldon Lu Sheldon Lu Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google positions (2004) 12 (3): 759–771. https://doi.org/10.1215/10679847-12-3-759 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Sheldon Lu; Beautiful Violence: War, Peace, Globalization. positions 1 August 2004; 12 (3): 759–771. doi: https://doi.org/…
The Cinema of Hong Kong
The Cinema of Hong Kong examines one of the most popular, dynamic, and important cinema traditions in the history of film. Providing an overview of major directors, genres, and stars, from its origins to the present, this volume examines Hong Kong cinema in historical, transnational, cultural and political contexts. Individual chapters focus on Hong Kong cinema before and during World War II, the cinema of the turbulent 1960s, its rise to world p…
Beautiful Violence
Commentary| August 01 2004 Beautiful Violence: War, Peace, Globalization Sheldon Lu Sheldon Lu Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google positions (2004) 12 (3): 759–771. https://doi.org/10.1215/10679847-12-3-759 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Sheldon Lu; Beautiful Violence: War, Peace, Globalization. positions 1 August 2004; 12 (3): 759–771. doi: https://doi.org/…
History, Memory, Nostalgia
This study will focus on a cluster of new films and television dramas that revisit and rewrite the history of Chinese socialism from a different point of view in light of the capitalist frenzy of commercialism and commodification in contemporary post-socialist China. It seems that it is only possible after some 20 years, after the historical wounds and traumas have been largely healed, that a new critical distance can be reached in regard to the …
I Ching and the origin of the Chinese semiotic tradition
This article explores the semiotic thought of I Ching (Book of Changes). This Confucian canon and the subsequent commentaries on it constitute the origin and one of the most important legacies of traditional Chinese theories of the sign. A central notion of I Ching is xiang — variously translated as ‘sign,’ or ‘image.’ The author approaches the idea of the ‘sign’ in I Ching and the later exegetical tradition in four aspects: 1) definition of the …
Beyond Sinology
Book Review| September 01 2014 Beyond Sinology: Chinese Writing and the Scripts of Culture Beyond Sinology: Chinese Writing and the Scripts of Culture. By Bachner, Andrea. New York: Columbia University Press, 2014. 282 p. Sheldon Lu Sheldon Lu Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Literature (2014) 66 (3): 371–373. https://doi.org/10.1215/00104124-2773720 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn M…
Re-visioning Global Modernity through the Prism of China
This essay reviews and assesses recent attempts to revisit and revise the position of China in the configuration of global modernity. Such re-descriptions question the implicit Eurocentric teleology of modern world history. First, the discourse of East Asian modernity or Confucian capitalism draws on late imperial (early modern) East Asia to locate an alternative origin of global modernity. Second, recent scholarship in world-systems analysis rep…
Introduction
This article is a short introduction to the genealogy, theory and practice of Chinese ecocinema. It situates Chinese ecocinema in the broad context of a general ecological and environmental turn in contemporary humanistic and cultural studies. The article pays close attention to contemporary Chinese-language documentaries that embrace an ecological consciousness. Furthermore, the article zeroes in on a specific Taiwanese documentary: My Fancy Hig…
Cosmopolitanism and Alternative Modernity in Twentieth-Century China
My essay joins the revisionist project of rewriting modern Chinese intellectual history. The historiography of modern China usually foregrounds the theme of nationalism in the grand narrative of China's arduous struggles for liberation, anti-imperialism, anti-colonialism, and anti-capitalism. Radical breaks from the Chinese tradition or from the outside world have occurred in the form of a series of earth-shaking revolutions throughout the twenti…
Commentary
This commentary begins with a review of the status and development of the burgeoning field of environmental humanities, of which ecocriticism (literature and environment studies) is an important subfield. The authors call for more attention to environmental humanities on a global scale, beyond the confines of Western academia. The second part of the commentary discusses the individual essays collected in this special issue of Comparative Literatu…
Introduction
The theme of this special issue of Telos is the modern city in world cinema. Its various essays examine the depiction of cities and their constitutive contexts through the lens of critical theory, political theory, cultural theory, and film theory. The contributors tackle a range of topics: the experience of modernity in urban contexts; cities in relation to civil society and the public sphere; the metropolis and cosmopolitanism; the urban/rural …
Law (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Art (6 works) · History (6 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · China (5 works) · Chinese history and philosophy (5 works) · Aesthetics (4 works) · Law (4 works)