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Developmental fairy tales evolutionary thinking and modern Chinese culture

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  • "Main description: Jones revises our understanding of modern China by tracing the ways that evolutionary works developed into a form of vernacular knowledge in modern Chinese literature. From children's primers to print culture, from fairy tales to filmmaking, his analysis offers an innovative and interdisciplinary angle of vision on China's cultural evolution."
  • "In 1992 Deng Xiaoping famously declared, "Development is the only hard imperative." What ensued was the transformation of China from a socialist state to a capitalist market economy. The spirit of development has since become the prevailing creed of the People's Republic, helping to bring about unprecedented modern prosperity, but also creating new forms of poverty, staggering social upheaval, physical dislocation, and environmental destruction. In Developmental Fairy Tales, Andrew Jones asserts that the groundwork for this recent transformation was laid in the late nineteenth century, with the translation of the evolutionary works of Lamarck, Darwin, and Spencer into Chinese letters. He traces the ways that the evolutionary narrative itself evolved into a form of vernacular knowledge which dissolved the boundaries between breast and man and reframed childhood development as a recapitulation of civilizational ascent, through which a beleaguered China might struggle for existence and claim a place in the modern world-system."

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  • "Criticism, interpretation, etc"
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  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Livres électroniques"

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  • "Developmental Fairy Tales evolutionary thinking and modern Chinese culture"
  • "Developmental Fairy Tales Evolutionary Thinking and Modern Chinese Culture"
  • "Developmental fairy tales evolutionary thinking and modern Chinese culture"
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  • "Developmental fairy tales : evolutionary thinking and modern Chinese culture"@en
  • "Developmental fairy tales : evolutionary thinking and modern Chinese culture"

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