Lydia He LIU
Biographic Data
| ID | 6407786 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lydia He LIU |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lydia He |
| FAMILY NAME | LIU |
| SIGNATURE | LIU L H |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The Birth of a Super-Sign
The Clash of Empires
This book illuminates the cultural legacy of sovereign thinking that emerged from the violent meetings between the British Empire and the Qing Dynasty (1644–1911). Liu demonstrates how the collision of imperial will and competing interests led to the invention of “China,” “the East,” “the West,” and the notion of “the world” in recent history
Writing and Materiality in China
Speaking about Chinese writing entails thinking about how writing speaks through various media. In the guises of the written character and its imprints, traces or ruins, writing is more than textuality. The goal of this volume is to consider the relationship of writing to materiality in China's literary history and to ponder the physical aspects of the production and circulation of writing. To speak of the thing-ness of writing is to understand i…
Tokens of Exchange
The problem of translation has become increasingly central to critical reflections on modernity and its universalizing processes. Approaching translation as a symbolic and material exchange among peoples and civilizations—and not as a purely linguistic or literary matter, the essays in Tokens of Exchange focus on China and its interactions with the West to historicize an economy of translation. Rejecting the familiar regional approach to non-West…
I Myself am a Woman
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I Myself am a Woman
Tokens of Exchange
The problem of translation has become increasingly central to critical reflections on modernity and its universalizing processes. Approaching translation as a symbolic and material exchange among peoples and civilizations—and not as a purely linguistic or literary matter, the essays in Tokens of Exchange focus on China and its interactions with the West to historicize an economy of translation. Rejecting the familiar regional approach to non-West…
Writing and Materiality in China
Speaking about Chinese writing entails thinking about how writing speaks through various media. In the guises of the written character and its imprints, traces or ruins, writing is more than textuality. The goal of this volume is to consider the relationship of writing to materiality in China's literary history and to ponder the physical aspects of the production and circulation of writing. To speak of the thing-ness of writing is to understand i…
The Birth of a Super-Sign
The Clash of Empires
This book illuminates the cultural legacy of sovereign thinking that emerged from the violent meetings between the British Empire and the Qing Dynasty (1644–1911). Liu demonstrates how the collision of imperial will and competing interests led to the invention of “China,” “the East,” “the West,” and the notion of “the world” in recent history
Chinese history and philosophy (4 works) · History (3 works) · china (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Linguistics (2 works) · Medicine (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 works) · Ancient history (1 works) · Art (1 works)