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The social life of nations: A comparative study of American and Chinese utopian fiction, 1888-1906.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The social life of nations: A comparative study of American and Chinese utopian fiction, 1888-1906./
Author:	Ma, Shao-ling.
Description:	341 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 74-02(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International74-02A(E).
Subject:	Comparative literature. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3542286
ISBN:	9781267699190

The social life of nations: A comparative study of American and Chinese utopian fiction, 1888-1906.
Ma, Shao-ling.

The social life of nations: A comparative study of American and Chinese utopian fiction, 1888-1906. - 341 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 74-02(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Southern California, 2012.

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My dissertation uncovers the under-explored intersection between American and Chinese literary utopianism from the years 1888 to 1906, during which the United States and China were caught between changing notions of nationhood and empire. As John Carlos Rowe observes, the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century United States was bound by the contradictory self-conceptions of a "powerful imperial desire and a profound anti-colonial temper." Distancing itself from the colonialism of the Old World, American nationalism can be said to be part of a new global logic in which the Chinese found themselves since the first Opium War. Not colonized as part of a single European empire, China's semi-colonial status signified the kind of emerging capitalist power relation of which U.S. involvement in Latin America and Asia was exemplary. I argue that American and Chinese utopian novels of the period combined seemingly conflicting ideals of nationhood and empire into fantastic and often dystopian visions of world unity.

ISBN: 9781267699190Subjects--Topical Terms:

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Comparative literature.

The social life of nations: A comparative study of American and Chinese utopian fiction, 1888-1906.
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520 $a Instead of viewing the novels' treatment of nationalism, imperialism and internationalism as separate and conflicting, I see them, following Frederic Jameson's argument, as complementary group formations which are utopian insofar as they express the unity of a collective. The notion of a "social life of nations," which gives my dissertation its title, alludes to the social relationality between nationhood, empire and ideas of a larger world unity.
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