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Geography of a "Foreign" China : = British Intellectuals' Encounter with Chinese Spaces, 1920-1945.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Geography of a "Foreign" China :/
Reminder of title:	British Intellectuals' Encounter with Chinese Spaces, 1920-1945.
Author:	Sun, Yuzhu.
Description:	1 online resource (232 pages)
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 84-05, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International84-05A.
Subject:	Comparative literature. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=29167294click for full text (PQDT)
ISBN:	9798352961810

Geography of a "Foreign" China : = British Intellectuals' Encounter with Chinese Spaces, 1920-1945.
Sun, Yuzhu.

Geography of a "Foreign" China :British Intellectuals' Encounter with Chinese Spaces, 1920-1945. - 1 online resource (232 pages)

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 84-05, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of South Carolina, 2022.

Includes bibliographical references

This dissertation examines how eleven British intellectuals, who lived in or traveled to China from the early to mid twentieth century, represent Chinese spaces and how Chinese spaces shape their identities. This group of writers includes William Somerset Maugham, Robert William Swallow, Ann Bridge, Stella Benson, Maurice Denton Welch, Harold Acton, Osbert Sitwell, Peter Quennell, Christopher Isherwood, W.H. Auden, and J.G. Ballard. Multiple genres, including travel writing, diaries, poetry, and fiction, based on the authors' real experiences in China constitute the research corpus. Current scholarship has researched these works from historical and socio-political viewpoints, but the spatial perspective has been ignored. Edward Soja's Thirdspace is constructed through his reading of Henry Lefebvre's spatial trialectics. Soja develops Lefebvre's conception into an-Other space, in which alternative possibilities beyond the binary logic exist. Drawing upon Soja's concept of "Thirdspace," the project brings space as a critical means to supplement current social and historical perspectives and addresses different responses to the conventional framework of spatial binaries. The works written by British intellectuals based on their real experiences not only reflect their controlling gaze on Chinese spaces as a means of enhancing their knowledge but also explain the process of the role of Chinese spaces in reshaping the cultural identity of individual British intellectuals. I argue that the spatial imagination constructed in British intellectuals' works, which is marked by their social, economic, cultural, and political identities, is in a constant process of negotiation. These British intellectuals' travel writings in and of themselves represent an in-between territory, in which things are in continuous movement beyond dualism and in incessant compromise. In the constantly shifting process of compromises, British intellectuals' different class, gender, and cultural identities are all at work, and their identities are shaped by Chinese spaces as well.

Electronic reproduction.
Ann Arbor, Mich. :
ProQuest,
2023

Mode of access: World Wide Web

ISBN: 9798352961810Subjects--Topical Terms:

570001
Comparative literature.
Subjects--Index Terms:

Maugham, William SomersetIndex Terms--Genre/Form:

542853
Electronic books.

Geography of a "Foreign" China : = British Intellectuals' Encounter with Chinese Spaces, 1920-1945.
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