How Long to Read Great Walls of Discourse and Other Adventures in Cultural China

How Long Does it Take to Read Great Walls of Discourse and Other Adventures in Cultural China?

It takes the average reader 5 hours and 23 minutes to read Great Walls of Discourse and Other Adventures in Cultural China by Haun Saussy

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Description

"China" and "the West," "us" and "them," the "subject" and the "non-subject"--these and other dualisms furnish China watchers, both inside and outside China, with a pervasive, ready-made set of definitions immune to empirical disproof. But what does this language of essential difference accomplish? The essays in this book are an attempt to cut short the recitation of differences and to answer this question. In six interpretive studies of China, the author examines the ways in which the networks of assumption and consensus that make communication possible within a discipline affect collective thinking about the object of study. Among other subjects, these essays offer a historical and historiographical introduction to the problem of comparison and deal with translation, religious proselytization, semiotics, linguistics, cultural bilingualism, writing systems, the career of postmodernism in China, and the role of China as an imaginary model for postmodernity in the West. Against the reigning simplifications, these essays seek to restore the interpretation of China to the complexity and impurity of the historical situations in which it is always caught. The chief goal of the essays in this book is not to expose errors in interpreting China but to use these misunderstandings as a basis for devising better methodologies for comparative studies.

How long is Great Walls of Discourse and Other Adventures in Cultural China?

Great Walls of Discourse and Other Adventures in Cultural China by Haun Saussy is 316 pages long, and a total of 80,896 words.

This makes it 107% the length of the average book. It also has 99% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Great Walls of Discourse and Other Adventures in Cultural China Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours and 22 minutes to read Great Walls of Discourse and Other Adventures in Cultural China aloud.

What Reading Level is Great Walls of Discourse and Other Adventures in Cultural China?

Great Walls of Discourse and Other Adventures in Cultural China is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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