{"title":"Professor Stuart Christie","description":"\u003cp\u003eProfessor Stuart Christie's works delve into the intersections of politics, culture, and personal experience, offering readers a thought-provoking exploration of radical ideas and social movements. His writing is characterised by a reflective tone that challenges conventional narratives and invites deeper consideration of historical and contemporary struggles.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFans of \u003cem\u003eThe Flip Side\u003c\/em\u003e and similar titles will find a blend of memoir, political analysis, and cultural commentary, all conveyed with sharp insight and intellectual rigor. Christie's books are essential for those interested in arts and culture with a critical edge.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"the-flip-side-by-professor-stuart-christie-9781743329931","title":"The Flip Side","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBenefiting from recently catalogued archival materials, \u003ci\u003eThe Flip Side: Old China Hands and the American Popular Imagination, 1935-1985\u003c\/i\u003e evaluates the influence of an ensemble of well-known Americans born and bred in China—Pearl S. Buck, Henry R. Luce, Owen Lattimore, and John Hersey—after their return to the United States of America. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe children of missionaries, all contributed in significant ways to the globalisation of the 'American ideal' in the 20th century, even as each sought in different roles—as publishers, as novelists, as scholars—to centre Chinese and 'Asian' values and concerns in the anglophone public sphere. The resulting torque, as Chinese ideas and values met the projection of American 'soft' power and governmentality, created a uniquely bilateral, global imaginary where respect for China as an emerging force encountered Western reaction. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFor these 'old China hands', their return to the USA resulted in then-unique (and still persisting) socio-cultural formations: 'bifocal' literary perspectives (Buck); correspondence celebrity (Hersey); fortress culture (Luce); and traitor citizenship (Lattimore). As old China hands, all were keen observers of (and active participants in) international networks combining a diversity of China-based expertise and resources that continued to inform their everyday work at a great distance. Both public and private, these networks, onshore and off, enabled and energised their own advocacy on behalf of a Chinese future distinct from its colonial or 'semi-feudal' past. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Flip Side\u003c\/i\u003e asserts that these Western stakeholders occupied a transitional but crucial role in the rise of China in Western imagination prior to China's assertion of sovereignty over its own global role and message. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47428254892268,"sku":"9781743329931","price":69.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781743329931.jpg?v=1774497387"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/collections\/professor-stuart-christie.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}