The "hidden" story of Latin America and China /
This book offers a new take on the relationship between Latin America and China, while ranging widely across literary studies, cultural studies, visual culture and politics. It focusses on a number of questions, including did the Chinese visit and even colonize the New World before Christopher Colum...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Newcastle upon Tyne, UK :
Cambridge Scholars Publishing,
2025.
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| Summary: | This book offers a new take on the relationship between Latin America and China, while ranging widely across literary studies, cultural studies, visual culture and politics. It focusses on a number of questions, including did the Chinese visit and even colonize the New World before Christopher Columbus? What are the implications for twenty-first century geo-politics of China’s “move” into Latin America? Can we read the implications of the current tech-war between China and the United States in the storyline of the twenty-first-century video game? Is the magical-real novel the prototypical example of “world literature” and, if it is, how does the Chinese novel fit in? Did the Peruvian poet, César Vallejo, have a special interest in China, and does the fact that he was a Trotskyite explain the suspicious circumstances in which he died in April 1938? Was he secretly poisoned by the Soviet Union’s NKVD? |
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| Physical Description: | 269 pages ; 22 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [236]-261) and index. |
| ISBN: | 1036458989 9781036458980 |