Bøker av Lydia H. Liu

The identity and role of writing has evolved in the age of digital media. But how did writing itself make digital media possible in the first place? This title offers a study of the political history of digital writing and its fateful entanglement with the Freudian unconscious.

This book illuminates the cultural legacy of sovereign thinking that emerged from the violent meetings between the British Empire and the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911). Liu demonstrates how the collision of imperial will and competing interests led to the invention of "China," "the East," "the West," and the notion of "the world" in recent history.