The Hypothetical Mandarin: Sympathy, Modernity, and Chinese Pain - Modernist Literature & Culture - Eric Hayot - Books - Oxford University Press Inc - 9780195382495 - April 30, 2009
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The Hypothetical Mandarin: Sympathy, Modernity, and Chinese Pain - Modernist Literature & Culture

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Through readings of novels, medical case studies, travelers' reports, photographs, and paintings, The Hypothetical Mandarin shows that in the West the connection between sympathy and humanity, and indeed between sympathy and reality, has tended to refract with a remarkable frequency through the lens called "China." Eric Hayot, through keen interpretations of myriad art forms and nonfictional writings, reveals how Western responses to Chinese pain go to theheart of the relationship between language and the body, the social and philosophical experience of modernity, and the definition of a universal human subject. In short, this analysis reveals how four terms-sympathy, suffering, economic exchange, and representational exchange-establish the network that framesthe historical discourse on China, sympathy, and modernity. It is a book that opens new possibilities for thinking about the West's relationship to China, past and present, and that establishes a new philosophical vantage from which to consider the question of empathy.

292 pages, 14 black and white half tones

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Released April 30, 2009
ISBN13 9780195382495
Publishers Oxford University Press Inc
Pages 296
Dimensions 155 × 232 × 20 mm   ·   414 g
Language English  

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