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A remarkably learned and innovative approach to textuality,
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This review is from: The Empire of the Text (Paperback)
This study presents a remarkably learned and innovative approach to textuality as linked to the production of Chinese imperial identity. Texts function not just as literary icons but as material transactions and installations of power. While detailed in thick cultural ways, this innovative approach to textuality has larger implications for the China study field (where it will be taken by some as a threat to their own textual power at Chicago and Columbia etc.), as well as for the broader field of cultural studies where the "empire of the text" is still confined to the pop cultural text as such. This is the first of many books from an innovative scholar who denies himself the lesser comforts and pieties of the "Chinese field imaginary." Go for it.
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The Empire of the Text by Christopher Leigh Connery (Paperback - Jan. 1999)
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