{"id":1588,"date":"2013-01-25T10:30:07","date_gmt":"2013-01-25T02:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=1588"},"modified":"2013-02-18T17:32:56","modified_gmt":"2013-02-18T09:32:56","slug":"dissertation-reviews-the-crowd-in-early-twentieth-century-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=1588","title":{"rendered":"Dissertation Reviews: The Crowd in Early Twentieth-Century China"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"The<\/a> Dissertation Reviews<\/a>has posted Roy Chan<\/a>‘s review of Tie Xiao<\/a>‘s In the Name of the Masses<\/a>: Conceptualizations and Representations of the Crowd in Early Twentieth-Century China<\/em>. Here\u2019s how it begins:<\/p>\n

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In Western media and scholarship, Chinese crowds are often schizophrenically portrayed as either terrifying or emancipatory \u2013 from the manic frenzy of the Red Guards to the student fighters for democracy at Tian\u2019anmen, from angry mobs destroying Japanese goods to heroic Hong Kong citizens defying Mainland \u201cbrainwashing,\u201d the massive, nameless Chinese crowd looms large in the global imagination as a specter embodying the ambivalence at the heart of modern political democracy. While the \u201cpeople\u201d constitutes the source from which political sovereignty derives, it also harbors fears of irrational mob rule, the steamrolling of the individual, and the claustrophobia of the collective. Tie Xiao\u2019s dissertation admirably charts the development of notions of the crowd in early twentieth-century intellectual discourse and aesthetic production. As he convincingly demonstrates, Chinese thinkers, while acknowledging the need for a political and social order that would be democratic in the broad sense, were also troubled by the antimony between terror and liberation that also lurked in the collective\u2019s bosom. Moreover, the early twentieth-century Chinese engagement with the \u201ccrowd\u201d took part in the processes of what Lydia Liu has termed \u201ctranslated modernity\u201d \u2013 the Chinese interest in crowds paralleled European interest in crowd psychology, as well as global aesthetic trends in representing the \u201cmasses\u201d in both literature and visual art.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dissertation Reviewshas posted Roy Chan‘s review of Tie Xiao‘s In the Name of the Masses: Conceptualizations and Representations of the Crowd in Early Twentieth-Century China. Here\u2019s how it begins: In Western media and scholarship, Chinese crowds are often schizophrenically portrayed … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[623,3,16],"tags":[90,724,923],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8srwF-pC","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1786,"url":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=1786","url_meta":{"origin":1588,"position":0},"title":"Chinese Literature Dissertation Reviews: Nathaniel Isaacson’s Colonial Modernities & Chinese Science Fiction","author":"Lucas Klein","date":"March 26, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Dissertation Reviews has posted Paola Iovene's review of Nathaniel Isaacson's Colonial Modernities and Chinese Science Fiction. 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