Empires of the Mind: I. A. Richards and Basic English in China, 1929-1979 - Hardcover

Koeneke, Rodney

 
9780804748223: Empires of the Mind: I. A. Richards and Basic English in China, 1929-1979
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0804748225 ISBN 13: 9780804748223
Verlag: Stanford University Press, 2004

Inhaltsangabe

Empires of the Mind tells the story of I. A. Richards, Britain's foremost literary critic in the 1920s, and his effort to promote an 850-word version of "global" English in China. Examining the cultural milieu of Cambridge between the World Wars, where Richards's internationalist vision first arose, this book traces the heretofore-unexplored connections between Richards's literary theories and his political ideals. Richards's time in China covers a volatile period in Chinese history: the Japanese occupation, the Communist revolution, and the beginnings of the Cold War all feature prominently in the history of Basic English over a fifty-year period.Koeneke considers Richards's project in the light of current theories about imperialism: Did Basic English anticipate today's multicultural aspirations for global exchange? Or did it advance new "empires of the mind" whose spoils are language and information? Ultimately, the history of Richards's time in China offers a crucial window onto the postcolonial complexities of our own.

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Rodney Koeneke has a Ph.D. in History and the Humanities from Stanford University.

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Empires of the Mind tells the story of I. A. Richards, Britain’s foremost literary critic in the 1920s, and his effort to promote an 850-word version of “global” English in China. Examining the cultural milieu of Cambridge between the World Wars, where Richards’s internationalist vision first arose, this book traces the heretofore-unexplored connections between Richards's literary theories and his political ideals. Richards’s time in China covers a volatile period in Chinese history: the Japanese occupation, the Communist revolution, and the beginnings of the Cold War all feature prominently in the history of Basic English over a fifty-year period.
Koeneke considers Richards’s project in the light of current theories about imperialism: Did Basic English anticipate today’s multicultural aspirations for global exchange? Or did it advance new “empires of the mind” whose spoils are language and information? Ultimately, the history of Richards’s time in China offers a crucial window onto the postcolonial complexities of our own.

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Empires of the Mind tells the story of I. A. Richards, Britain s foremost literary critic in the 1920s, and his effort to promote an 850-word version of global English in China. Examining the cultural milieu of Cambridge between the World Wars, where Richards s internationalist vision first arose, this book traces the heretofore-unexplored connections between Richards's literary theories and his political ideals. Richards s time in China covers a volatile period in Chinese history: the Japanese occupation, the Communist revolution, and the beginnings of the Cold War all feature prominently in the history of Basic English over a fifty-year period.
Koeneke considers Richards s project in the light of current theories about imperialism: Did Basic English anticipate today s multicultural aspirations for global exchange? Or did it advance new empires of the mind whose spoils are language and information? Ultimately, the history of Richards s time in China offers a crucial window onto the postcolonial complexities of our own.

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Verlag
Stanford University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2004
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0804748225
ISBN 13 
9780804748223
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Anzahl der Seiten
272
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