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  • Inventing Left and Right in China

    Media Discourse, Politics, and Ideology (1877-1927)

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    This book explores the introduction and localization of the political concepts of left and right in Chinese media discourse from the late Qing to the late 1920s, analyzing their shift from spatial metaphors to political symbols that redefined Chinese society, politics, and culture.Globally established as political terms in 1789, left and right began to appear in Chinese media by the late ... Read more

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  • The “Socialist Transformation” of Memory

    Reversing Chinese History through “Pernicious-Vestiges” Media Discourse

    by Yusi Liu, Ye Ma ...
    Series series China Perspectives
    Through discourse analysis and a historical comparison of “Pernicious-Vestiges” narratives in the news text of People’s Daily, this book is devoted to revealing primary metaphors of “Pernicious-Vestiges” and political functions in China.“Pernicious-Vestiges” (Yí Dú 遗毒) is one of the most frequently used words in contemporary Chinese historical narration, as well as a constantly changing rhetorical ... Read more

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