David Leiwei Li
Biographic Data
| ID | 642757 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David Leiwei Li |
| GIVEN NAMES | David Leiwei |
| FAMILY NAME | Li |
| SIGNATURE | LI D L |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Economy, Emotion, and Ethics in Chinese Cinema
The First and Second Comings of capitalism are conceptual shorthands used to capture the radical changes in global geopolitics from the Opium War to the end of the Cold War and beyond. Centring the role of capitalism in the Chinese everyday, the framework can be employed to comprehend contemporary Chinese culture in general and, as in this study, Chinese cinema in particular. This book investigates major Chinese-language films from mainland China…
Shanghai Expo 2010
China entered global media consciousness following the Tiananmen crackdown and the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, the two world events that heralded ‘the Reagan, Thatcher, and Deng Xiaoping Revolution’, and with its spectacular economic growth it has remained central to the picture of global capitalism ever since. A Chinese native and naturalised American academic, I am constantly surprised at my hometown Shanghai's rapid and restless makeover.…
Capturing China in Globalization
Capturing China in Globalization:The Dialectic of Autonomy and Dependency in Zhang Yimou’s Cinema David Leiwei Li In 1992 Zhang Yimou, doubtless China's best-known film director both domestically and abroad, released The Story of Qiu Ju (Qiuju da guansi), a dramatic feature about a peasant woman seeking justice for her injured husband.1 Qiu Ju signals several significant departures from earlier works that bear Zhang's auteurist signature. The ext…
On Ascriptive and Acquisitional Americanness
ublished in 1998, The Accidental Asian: Notes of Native Speaker concludes century of Asian autobiography riddled with the anxiety of national belonging.1 Intuiting powerful Orientalism that renders being Asian and conceptually and experientially incompatible, Eric Liu dismisses his biological inheritance as accidental while deliberately affirming his nativity both to the English language and the geopolitical sphere of the United States.2 His poig…
Globalization and the Humanities
This is the most comprehensive collection to date on how economic globalization transforms contemporary humanistic inquiries on matters of fundamental cultural and political significance. Against the tyranny of the worldwide free market that naturalizes the aggregation of power for the increasingly few, the contributors to this volume at once advocate an egalitarian model of global distributive justice and cultivate a cosmopolitan communal consci…
Imagining the Nation
Since the 1970's, when Maxine Hong Kingston began publishing her prize-winning books, we have seen an explosive growth in Asian American literature, a literature that has won both popular and critical acclaim. Literary anthologies and critical studies attest to a growing academic interest in the field. This book seeks to identify the forces behind this literary emergence and to explore both the unique place of Asian Americans in American culture …
China Men
Journal Article China Men: Maxine Hong Kingston and the American Canon Get access David Leiwei Li David Leiwei Li Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar American Literary History, Volume 2, Issue 3, Fall 1990, Pages 482–502, https://doi.org/10.1093/alh/2.3.482 Published: 01 October 1990
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China Men
Journal Article China Men: Maxine Hong Kingston and the American Canon Get access David Leiwei Li David Leiwei Li Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar American Literary History, Volume 2, Issue 3, Fall 1990, Pages 482–502, https://doi.org/10.1093/alh/2.3.482 Published: 01 October 1990
Imagining the Nation
Since the 1970's, when Maxine Hong Kingston began publishing her prize-winning books, we have seen an explosive growth in Asian American literature, a literature that has won both popular and critical acclaim. Literary anthologies and critical studies attest to a growing academic interest in the field. This book seeks to identify the forces behind this literary emergence and to explore both the unique place of Asian Americans in American culture …
On Ascriptive and Acquisitional Americanness
ublished in 1998, The Accidental Asian: Notes of Native Speaker concludes century of Asian autobiography riddled with the anxiety of national belonging.1 Intuiting powerful Orientalism that renders being Asian and conceptually and experientially incompatible, Eric Liu dismisses his biological inheritance as accidental while deliberately affirming his nativity both to the English language and the geopolitical sphere of the United States.2 His poig…
Globalization and the Humanities
This is the most comprehensive collection to date on how economic globalization transforms contemporary humanistic inquiries on matters of fundamental cultural and political significance. Against the tyranny of the worldwide free market that naturalizes the aggregation of power for the increasingly few, the contributors to this volume at once advocate an egalitarian model of global distributive justice and cultivate a cosmopolitan communal consci…
Capturing China in Globalization
Capturing China in Globalization:The Dialectic of Autonomy and Dependency in Zhang Yimou’s Cinema David Leiwei Li In 1992 Zhang Yimou, doubtless China's best-known film director both domestically and abroad, released The Story of Qiu Ju (Qiuju da guansi), a dramatic feature about a peasant woman seeking justice for her injured husband.1 Qiu Ju signals several significant departures from earlier works that bear Zhang's auteurist signature. The ext…
Shanghai Expo 2010
China entered global media consciousness following the Tiananmen crackdown and the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, the two world events that heralded ‘the Reagan, Thatcher, and Deng Xiaoping Revolution’, and with its spectacular economic growth it has remained central to the picture of global capitalism ever since. A Chinese native and naturalised American academic, I am constantly surprised at my hometown Shanghai's rapid and restless makeover.…
Economy, Emotion, and Ethics in Chinese Cinema
The First and Second Comings of capitalism are conceptual shorthands used to capture the radical changes in global geopolitics from the Opium War to the end of the Cold War and beyond. Centring the role of capitalism in the Chinese everyday, the framework can be employed to comprehend contemporary Chinese culture in general and, as in this study, Chinese cinema in particular. This book investigates major Chinese-language films from mainland China…
Art (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · History (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Literature (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Art history (3 works) · Asian American and Pacific Histories (3 works) · China (3 works) · Politics (3 works)