Mighty Opposites: From Dichotomies to Differences in the Comparative Study of China

By Longxi Zhang

Book Overview

This book examines the discrepancies between various Western representations of China and the reality of China. It inquires into the cultural, historical, and political contexts within which such discrepancies arise, and it points out the distortion of reality in the tendency toward cultural dichotomies, the tendency to view China as the conceptual opposite of the West.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804734712
• ISBN13: 9780804734714
• Release Date: December 1998
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 260 Pages
• Weight: 0.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.4"