200 Pages
by
Routledge
200 Pages
by
Routledge
208 Pages
by
Routledge
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An innovative text which adopts the tools of cultural studies to provide a fresh approach to the study of Chinese language, culture and society. The book tackles areas such as grammar, language, gender, popular culture, film and the Chinese diaspora and employs the concepts of social semiotics to extend the ideas of language and reading. Covering a range of cultural texts, it will help to break... Read more
Chapter 1 How to Read Dragons; Chapter 2 Reading Style; Chapter 3 Writing and the Ideological Machine; Chapter 4 Grammar as Ideology; Chapter 5 Living with Double-Think; Chapter 6 The Cult of the Hero; Chapter 7 Breaking the Square;
Biography
Hodge, Bob; Louie, Kam
'The authors are to be congratulated on expressing the complex ideas they are dealing with in a refreshingly clear and jargon-free manner.' - Asian Affairs, February 2000
