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Summary:

"In Intransitive Encounter, Nan Da argues that the transnational readings of literary and cultural exchanges often read too much into their significance or mistake the nature of that interaction. The push to characterize these exchanges as developing a cosmopolitanism or producing elements of cultural imperialism misses the particularities or limits of cross-cultural interactions. Taking a closer look at a series of encounters among Chinese and American writers, scholars, and activists during the nineteenth century, Nan Da considers how ideas from other cultures were actually thought about and used in ways to preserve their own national traditions or in ways quite different than their original intent. The book is structured around different episodes of exchange that includes such figures as Washington Irving, Emerson, Yung Wing (founder of the Chinese Educational Mission at Yale), Longfellow, and Chinese and American feminist writers at the end of the century" -- [Provided by publisher]

Table of Contents:

• Machine generated contents note: ch. One Indifference in the Open: Squandering Washington Irving
• ch. Two Extreme Reformality: Burning Bridges with Ralph Waldo Emerson
• ch. Three Incommunicative Exchange: Yung Wing's Impersonal Schemes
• ch. Four Things Things Do Not Have to Say: Longfellow to Dong Xun
• ch. Five Open Books: Qiu Jin's Feminist Reading Time
• ch. Six Harmless Exaggeration: Edith Eaton's Tweaks and Glitches.

Author/Creator:

Da, Nan Z. , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Intransitive encounter: Sino-U.S. literatures and the limits of exchange [by Da, N.Z.]

Other Related Resources:

Print version: Intransitive encounter [by Da, N.Z.] (New York : Columbia University Press, 2018 — ISBN 9780231188029; LCCN 2018016138)

Subjects:

American literature — 19th century — History and criticism

American literature — Chinese influences

United States — Relations — China

Chinese literature — 19th century — History and criticism

Chinese literature — American influences

China — Relations — United States

Culture in literature

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on January 04, 2019).

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Call Numbers:

PS159.C5 D3 2018eb

ISBNs:

9780231547628 (electronic book)
0231547625 (electronic book)
9780231188029 (hardcover, alkaline paper) [Invalid]

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2018040186

OCLC Numbers:

1049576101

Other Control Numbers:

EBC5552972 (source: MiAaPQ)
[Unknown Type]: ybp15850972