The Living Tree

by Tu, Wei-Ming; Wei-Ming, Tu

• ISBN13: 9780804721912
• ISBN10: 0804721912
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1995-02-01
• Publisher: Stanford Univ Pr

Table of Contents

Contributors
Cultural China: The Periphery as the Center	p. 1
The Inner World of 1830	p. 35
No Solace from Lethe: History, Memory, and Cultural Identity in Twentieth-Century China	p. 64
Being Chinese: The Peripheralization of Traditional Identity	p. 88
Kuan-hsi and Network Building: A Sociological Interpretation	p. 109
Among Non-Chinese	p. 127
The Construction of Chinese and Non-Chinese Identities	p. 148
The "Evil Wife" in Contemporary Chinese Fiction	p. 168
Roots and the Changing Identity of the Chinese in the United States	p. 185
From Qiao [actual symbol not reproducible] and Qiao [actual symbol not reproducible]	p. 213
On the Margins of the Chinese Discourse: Some Personal Thoughts on the Cultural Meaning of the Periphery	p. 221
Glossary	p. 245
Notes	p. 261
Index	p. 289
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