Author: John A. RobertsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 167
Book Description
China Through Western Eyes
Author: John A. RobertsChina Through Western Eyes
Author: J. A. G. RobertsPublisher: Sutton Publishing
ISBN: 9780862998288
Category : China
Languages : en
Pages : 167
Book Description
China Through Western Eyes
Author: John A. RobertsChina Through Western Eyes, the Twentieth Century
Author: J. A. G. RobertsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Islam Through Western Eyes
Author: Jonathan LyonsPublisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231528140
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
Despite the West's growing involvement in Muslim societies, conflicts, and cultures, its inability to understand or analyze the Islamic world threatens any prospect for East–West rapprochement. Impelled by one thousand years of anti-Muslim ideas and images, the West has failed to engage in any meaningful or productive way with the world of Islam. Formulated in the medieval halls of the Roman Curia and courts of the European Crusaders and perfected in the newsrooms of Fox News and CNN, this anti-Islamic discourse determines what can and cannot be said about Muslims and their religion, trapping the West in a dangerous, dead-end politics that it cannot afford. In Islam Through Western Eyes, Jonathan Lyons unpacks Western habits of thinking and writing about Islam, conducting a careful analysis of the West's grand totalizing narrative across one thousand years of history. He observes the discourse's corrosive effects on the social sciences, including sociology, politics, philosophy, theology, international relations, security studies, and human rights scholarship. He follows its influence on research, speeches, political strategy, and government policy, preventing the West from responding effectively to its most significant twenty-first-century challenges: the rise of Islamic power, the emergence of religious violence, and the growing tension between established social values and multicultural rights among Muslim immigrant populations. Through the intellectual "archaeology" of Michel Foucault, Lyons reveals the workings of this discourse and its underlying impact on our social, intellectual, and political lives. He then addresses issues of deep concern to Western readers—Islam and modernity, Islam and violence, and Islam and women—and proposes new ways of thinking about the Western relationship to the Islamic world.
China Through Western Eyes
Author: China Through Western Eyes
Author: Babylon Under Western Eyes
Author: Andrew ScheilPublisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1442625139
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Babylon under Western Eyes examines the mythic legacy of ancient Babylon, the Near Eastern city which has served western culture as a metaphor for power, luxury, and exotic magnificence for more than two thousand years. Sifting through the many references to Babylon in biblical, classical, medieval, and modern texts, Andrew Scheil uses Babylon’s remarkable literary ubiquity as the foundation for a thorough analysis of the dynamics of adaptation and allusion in western literature. Touching on everything from Old English poetry to the contemporary apocalyptic fiction of the “Left Behind” series, Scheil outlines how medieval Christian society and its cultural successors have adopted Babylon as a political metaphor, a degenerate archetype, and a place associated with the sublime. Combining remarkable erudition with a clear and accessible style, Babylon under Western Eyes is the first comprehensive examination of Babylon’s significance within the pantheon of western literature and a testimonial to the continuing influence of biblical, classical, and medieval paradigms in modern culture.
China Through Western Eyes
Author: Mary W. R. NewtonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : China
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
Chinese Women Through Chinese Eyes
Author: Li Yu-ningPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317474716
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
The special focus of this book is the lives and experiences of women in China in the first half of the 20th century. Part One - Historical Interpretations - presents essays by Western-educated Chinese women and men, on the historical role of women in a time of great social and economic upheaval. Part Two - Self-Portraits of Women in Modern China - presents the views of women who experienced life in this period through essays and autobiographies that range from women as concubines to women as factory workers, from women suffering footbinding to women serving as nurses, from women in traditional role in a traditional family to women as scientists and teachers.