Carlos Rojas, "Homesickness: Culture, Contagion, and National Transformation in Modern China"
English | 2015 | pages: 346 | ISBN: 0674743946 | PDF | 1,8 mb
The collapse of China's Qing dynasty coincided roughly with discoveries that helped revolutionize views of infectious disease. Together, these parallel developments generated a set of paradigm shifts in the understanding of society, the individual, as well as the cultural matrix that mediates between them. In Homesickness, Carlos Rojas examines an array of Chinese literary and cinematic tropes of illness, arguing that these works approach sickness not solely as a symptom of dysfunction but more importantly as a key to its potential solution.