Humanities in Contemporary Chinese Contexts, Hardcover by Chan, Evelyn T. Y. ...

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Humanities in Contemporary Chinese Contexts, Hardcover by Chan, Evelyn T. Y. (EDT); O'Sullivan, Michael (EDT), ISBN 9811022658, ISBN-13 9789811022654, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US This book brings together the perspectives of eminent and emerging scholars on contemporary issues relevant to the practice, pedagogy and institutionalization of the humanities in the three Chinese contexts of Hong Kong, Taiwan, and mainland China. It addresses the need to investigate how humanities discussions, often exclusively drawn from, and grounded in, western contexts, are today being played out in these three places. The humanities in contemporary Chinese contexts may have different social and pedagogical roles, and a consideration of them will enable people to moderate, and perhaps even refute, claims made in the recent (re)readings of the humanities. As Asian universities rise in the global rankings and as east-west university collaborations and partnerships become more common, it is important that the nature, practice and institutionalization of the humanities in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and mainland China are explored and described for English readers. Exploring new perspectives arising from an examination of the humanities in these places, this volume aims neither to establish a position of polarity, which would pit western sites against Chinese ones, nor to argue for universal sameness. Rather, the goal is to find nuanced correspondences and differences between these various backgr

• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 2016
• Binding: Hardcover
• ISBN: 9789811022654
• Condition: Fine

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