Homesickness

by Carlos Rojas

The collapse of China's Qing dynasty coincided roughly with discoveries that helped revolutionize views of infectious disease. Together, these parallel developments generated a set of paradigm shifts in the understanding of society, the individual, as well as the cultural matrix that mediates between them. In Homesickness, Carlos Rojas examines an array of Chinese literary and cinematic tropes of illness, arguing that these works approach...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674743946
• ISBN13: 9780674743946
• Release Date: April 2015
• Publisher: Harvard
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.4"