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Travels in China
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Thematic index index index of proper names Facsimile of Notebook 1 (R Roland Barthes Archives, IMEC) ) is an extract from the notebook of.Abstract:
Introduction Map of China Roland Barthes: Notes from a Visit to China Notebook 1 Notebook 2 Notebook 3 Notes for Notebooks 1-3 Notebook 4 Thematic index Index of proper names Facsimile of Notebook 1 (Roland Barthes Archives, IMEC)read more
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Tourism in China: representing the nation to English speaking tourists: A historical study of the development of tourism and the interpretive media encountered at five Beijing tourist sites
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present an analysis of interpretive media at five major tourist sites (the Temple of Heaven, Lama Temple, Confucius Temple, Forbidden City and the Summer Palace) in Beijing.
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China as documentary: Some basic questions (inspired by Michelangelo Antonioni and Jia Zhangke):
TL;DR: The work of Jia Zhangke offers an interesting provocation: as well as subjectivity and time, he makes mediality part of a consciously stylized gesture of documentary-making, turning the notion of "China as documentary" into a new kind of conceptual project as mentioned in this paper.
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A Dissonance of Discourses: Literary Theory, Ideology, and Translation in Mo Yan and Chinese Literary Studies
TL;DR: The authors examine the theoretical assumptions and stakes at work in the reading of Mo Yan and his Nobel, with attention to their ideological underpinnings, followed with a discussion on the importance of considering translation and the relationship between literary reading and politics.
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Readymade Mao: Impersonation and Affective Relations
Nicholas de Villiers,Yongan Wu +1 more
TL;DR: Zhang Bingjian's Readymade as discussed by the authors focuses on the lives of two Mao Zedong impersonators in the People's Republic of China: Peng Tian, a forty-six-year-old farmer from Hunan Province enrolled in the performance art program of Beijing Film Academy with the financial support of his wife and family; and Chen Yan, a fifty-one-year old housewife from Sichuan Province who is the only female Mao impersonator in China.
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Traveller or Tourist? The Sensible Observations of Roland Barthes and George Sandys
TL;DR: The authors make a strong case that Sandys' Relation of a journey begun An; Dom: 1610 (1615) is the ancestor of the late nineteenth-century guides that did so much to encourage European tourism, Baedeker and Cook.