Nationalism and the Postcolonial

Dinter, Sandra; Marquardt, Johanna

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“…Since nationalism has become the dominant legitimating ideology for geopolitical entities in the modern world, for a non-Western postcolonial state, to become a “nation” often entails the rediscovery of native cultural roots, despite their constructed or “imagined” nature. The postcolonial identity, therefore, is often constructed in complicity with cultural nationalism (Dinter and Marquardt 2021). But postmodern conservatism is similarly rising in developed worlds, driven by the belief that liberal rationalism, marching under the banners of science and utilitarianism, was increasingly leading people to feel disconnected from their particular identities and the traditions and values associated with them (McManus 2020).…”

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Sinophone Classicism: Chineseness as Temporal and Mnemonic Experience in the Digital Era

Yang

2022

J of Asian Stud

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In recent decades, highly heterogeneous literary and artistic articulations harking back to China's classical past have gained increasing currency in the global Sinophone space and cyberspace. Instead of dismissing them as “fetishisms” or authenticating them as “Chinese traditions,” I propose “Sinophone classicism” as a new critical expression for conceptualizing this diverse array of articulations. It refers to the appropriation, redeployment, and reconfiguration of cultural memories evoking Chinese aesthetic and intellectual traditions for local, contemporary, and vernacular uses, by agents identified or self-identified as Chinese. This essay proposes a subjective, intimate, and reflexive way to experience an individual's culturally acquired “Chineseness” that is temporal, mnemonic, and often mediated by digital media. It joins recent scholarly efforts to dismantle the view of “Chinese modernity” as a monocentric and homogenous experience by refocusing on classicism as a kind of “antimodern modernism.” It also joins the post-Eurocentric turn in global academia by hinting at a future of “global classicisms.”

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Sinophone Classicism: Chineseness as Temporal and Mnemonic Experience in the Digital Era

Yang

2022

J of Asian Stud

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Nationalism and the Postcolonial

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