new books

The Frankenstein of 1790 and Other Lost Chapters 

from Revolutionary France

The French Revolution brings to mind violent mobs, the guillotine, and Madame Defarge, but it was also a publishing revolution: more than 1,200 novels were published between 1789 and 1804, when Napoleon declared the Revolution at an end. In this book, Julia V. Douthwaite explores how the works within this enormous corpus announced the new shapes of literature to come and reveals that vestiges of these stories can be found in novels by the likes of Mary Shelley, E. T. A. Hoffmann, Honoré de Balzac, Charles Dickens, Gustave Flaubert, and L. Frank Baum.

Material Fantasies

EXPECTATIONS OF THE WESTERN CONSUMER WORLD AMONG EAST GERMAN

In 1989 news broadcasts all over the world were dominated for weeks by images of East Germans crossing the Berlin Wall to West Germany. But what did the East Germans expect to find when they excitedly broke through the Wall? And what did they actually find when they made it over to the other side? This study draws on fifteen months of research into both the lives of East Germans before the fall of communism and their fast-changing world after they embraced capitalism. Grounded in powerful anthropological insights, Milena Veenis argues persuasively that national identifications and the bond between state and citizenry in both East and West Germany over the past twenty years hasbeen shaped by the far-fetched, socialist and capitalist promises of consumption as the road to ultimate well-being. These promises also functioned as a way to cover up the more shameful and dirty aspects of both countries’ history and social life.

Mobility at Large

GLOBALIZATION, TEXTUALITY AND INNOVATIVE TRAVEL WRITING

Mobility at Large looks at the work of innovative contemporary travel writers who experiment with form, content, and the politics of representation. Authors such as Michael Ondaatje, Caryl Phillips, and Daphne Marlatt have transformed the genre by using a variety of experimental techniques to examine the cultural and political issues raised by travel, migration, mobility, and displacement. This book challenges those who dismiss travel writing as inherently conservative and bound up in a colonial, Eurocentric tradition.

The search for modernity : Chinese intellectuals and cultural discourse in the post-Mao era

The search for modernity : Chinese intellectuals and cultural discourse in the post-Mao era / Min Lin, with Maria Galikowski

Bib ID	1435584
Format	Book,  Online - Google Books
Author	Lin, Min, 1957-
Edition	1st ed.
Description	New York : St. Martin's Press, 1999.  xii, 271 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
ISBN	0312217587 (hbk.)  0312217587
Summary	"The Search for Modernity looks at the changing relationship between Chinese intellectuals and society, and examines the role of Chinese intellectuals in the turbulent process of modernization, comparing them to their Western counterparts. The Search for Modernity is an important attempt to understand the philosophical dilemmas and challenges facing Chinese intellectuals as they define the issues of modernity within a global context, their self-identity, and their role in an ever-changing Chinese society."--BOOK JACKET.
Full contents	1. From the Reinterpretation of Humanistic Marxism to Pragmatic Neo-Conservatism: Chinese Intellectuals' Pluralistic Exploration of Modernity 2. Li Zehou and His Enlightenment Philosophy 3. Wang Meng's "Hard Porridge" and the Paradox of Reform in China 4. Bei Dao's "13 Happiness Street" and the Young Generation's Quest for the "Unknowable" 5. Absurdity, Senselessness and Alienation: Xu Xing's Literary Reflections on the Contemporary Human Condition 6. Liang Xiaosheng's Moral Critique of China's Modernization Process 7. Individual Salvation and Ultimate Concerns: Liu Xiaofeng's Pursuit of Transcendent Human Universality 8. From "River Elegy" to China Can Say No: China's Neo-Nationalism and the Search for a Collective National Identity 9. From the Center to the Periphery: The Development of Chinese Intellectuals' "New Identity" and "Self-Awareness"

Technics and Time, 3: Cinematic time and the question of malaise

Bernard Stiegler   2011

booklist for dissertation

Pickowicz, Paul. "Huang Jianxin and the Notion of Postsocialism." In Nick Browne et al., eds. New Chinese Cinemas: Forms, Identities, Politics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994, 57-87.


Marxism and the Chinese experience
(with the one of Arif Dirlik on postsocialism)


The Ideology of the Information Age
edited by Jennifer Daryl Slack        1987


Civilization at the Crossroads: social and human implications of the scientific and technological revolution

脑力劳动与现代化建设    宗寒 （inter-libarian loan）

人性、人道主义问题讨论集      人民出版社   1983


Primitive Passions: Visuality, sexuality, ethnography and contemporary chinese cinema
Rey Chow      1995


Marxism after Marx: an introduction     (David McLellan)
1979

Haunted media: Electric presence from telegraphy to television

(Jeffrey  Sconce, Duke UP 2000)

medium and media

(learn the way he brings "spiritual" and "electromagnetic" telegraphs together      the way of writing provides a good example for my chapter on  qigong craze and sic-fi)

booklist about information for my dissertation

The political Economy of Information
edited by Vincent Mosco and Janet Wasko    (the university of Wisconsin press , 1988)


The Laws of Cool : Knowledge work and the Culture of Information
by Alan Liu    (U of Chicago press   2004)


A history of the Modern fact: problems of knowledge in the sciences of Wealth and society
Mary Poovey    1998

Path into the unknown: The Best of Soviet Science Fiction

Ilya Varshavsky: The Conflict
about a robot nanny  superiority to human beings
(page about the author: http://translatedsf.thierstein.net/tiki-index.php?page=Ilya+Varshavsky)
Ilya Varshavsky:  Robby
about a robot who argues with the narrator with theoretical and mathematical accuracy
the narrator has a haircut the robot doesn't recognize him and shut him out


G. Gor     The boy
(a boy who is a double of another boy who was born and grew up in a spaceship    knows everything    mysterious )
(http://translatedsf.thierstein.net/tiki-index.php?page=Gennady+Gor)



Anatoly Dnieprov  Siema       (published in The Heart of the Serpent)
(http://translatedsf.thierstein.net/tiki-index.php?page=Anatoly+Dnieprov)