{"product_id":"homesickness-rojas-9780674743946","title":"Homesickness: Culture, Contagion, and National Transformation in Modern China","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe 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 \u003ci\u003eHomesickness\u003c\/i\u003e, 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eRojas focuses on a condition he calls \"homesickness\"--referring to a discomfort caused not by a longing for home but by an excessive proximity to it. The product of a dialectics of internal alienation and self-differentiation, this inverse homesickness marks a movement away from the \"home,\" conceived as spaces associated with the nation, the family, and the individual body. The result is a productive dynamism that gives rise to the possibility of long-term health. Without sickness, in other words, there could be no health. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThrough a set of detailed analyses of works from China, Greater China, and the global Chinese diaspora--ranging from late-imperial figures such as Liu E and Zeng Pu to contemporary figures such as Yan Lianke and Tsai Ming-liang--Rojas asserts that the very possibility of health is predicated on this condition of homesickness.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Carlos Rojas\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0674743946\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780674743946\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Harvard University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/06\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 352\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.40lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.40h x 6.40w x 1.10d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/01\/2015","brand":"Carlos Rojas","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44059468529919,"sku":"9780674743946","price":56.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_9a95c7b9-666e-44df-b8b2-e0e22e64eaa1.jpg?v=1685058411","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/homesickness-rojas-9780674743946","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}