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Internationalist Aesthetics
China and Early Soviet Culture EDWARD TYERMAN
All Mine!
Happiness, Ownership, and Naming in Eleventh-Century China STEPHEN OWEN
“This is a pathbreaking work. With great nuance and superbly insightful close readings, Internationalist Aesthetics shows the rise of this aesthetic, as well as
“Stephen Owen’s interpretations of Chinese literature are not only enlightening but also a pleasure to read.
its decline, and ponders its legacies for both Soviet
He always finds levels of meaning I would not have
culture and global cultural production.”
reached on my own.”
—Nicolai Volland, author of Socialist Cosmopolitanism:
—Patricia Ebrey, author of Emperor Huizong
The Chinese Literary Universe, 1945–1965
Internationalist Aesthetics offers a groundbreaking account of the crucial role that China played in the early Soviet cultural imagination. Reading across genres and media from reportage and biography to ballet and documentary film, Edward Tyerman shows how Soviet culture sought an aesthetics that could foster a sense of internationalist community. Grounded in extensive sources in Russian and Chinese, this cultural history bridges Slavic and East Asian studies and offers new insight into the transnational dynamics that shaped socialist aesthetics and politics in both countries. EDWARD TYERMAN
is an associate professor in the
Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the
Stephen Owen contends that in the new money economy of the Song Dynasty, writers became preoccupied with the question of whether material things can bring happiness. Key thinkers returned to this problem, weighing the conflicting influences of worldly possessions and material comfort against Confucian ideology, which locates true contentment in the Way and disdains attachment to things. In a series of essays, All Mine! offers strikingly original readings of major eleventh-century figures. STEPHEN OWEN
is James Bryant Conant University
Professor Emeritus in the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University. His many books include, most recently, Just a Song: Chinese Lyrics from the Eleventh and Early Twelfth Centuries (2019).
University of California, Berkeley.
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