Writing China from the rest of the west: travels and transculturation in 1920s Spain

Scholarship on the representation of China in the West generally assumes a direct interaction characterized by a colonial dynamics. This article shows what happens when a third agent - neither colonizer nor colonized - enters the picture and looks at two responses from Spanish texts written during t...

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Autor: Prado-Fonts, Carles
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión aceptada para publicación
Fecha de publicación:2018
País:España
Institución:Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC)
Repositorio:O2, repositorio institucional de la UOC
OAI Identifier:oai:openaccess.uoc.edu:10609/102886
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/10609/102886
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:China
transculturation
representation
Vicente Blasco Ibáñez
Federico García Sanchiz
Xina
transculturació
representació
transculturación
representación
Acculturation
Aculturació
Aculturación
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spelling Writing China from the rest of the west: travels and transculturation in 1920s SpainPrado-Fonts, CarlesChinatransculturationrepresentationVicente Blasco IbáñezFederico García SanchizXinatransculturaciórepresentacióVicente Blasco IbáñezFederico García SanchizChinatransculturaciónrepresentaciónVicente Blasco IbáñezFederico García SanchizAcculturationAculturacióAculturaciónScholarship on the representation of China in the West generally assumes a direct interaction characterized by a colonial dynamics. This article shows what happens when a third agent - neither colonizer nor colonized - enters the picture and looks at two responses from Spanish texts written during the 1920s: whereas Vicente Blasco Ibáñez's China chapters in his well-known La vuelta al mundo de un novelista [1924] dissolve the Spanish position into the voice of the colonizer, Federico García Sanchiz's La ciudad milagrosa [1926] uses an external perspective to articulate a more critical view of the Western presence in Shanghai that is nevertheless subjected to a formal style that homogenizes the narrative. I argue that both works have trouble offering a coherent representation of China that is driven by their Spanish positionality. This proves not only the ambivalence of (Spanish) representations of China in the twentieth century but also the strength of the discourse generated by colonial powers, which ends up expanding its actual scope: here, domination was not only exerted in China, but also, discursively, within the West itself. This ultimately shows that we must not completely denationalize the study of cross-cultural representations.Journal of Spanish Cultural StudiesUniversitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC)201920192018info:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersionapplication/pdfhttps://hdl.handle.net/10609/102886reponame:O2, repositorio institucional de la UOCinstname:Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC)InglésJournal of Spanish Cultural Studies, 2018, 19(2)https://doi.org/10.1080/14636204.2018.1453110info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/HAR2012-34823//info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/HAR2016-79995-P//CC BY-NC-NDhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:openaccess.uoc.edu:10609/1028862026-05-28T12:42:01Z
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title Writing China from the rest of the west: travels and transculturation in 1920s Spain
spellingShingle Writing China from the rest of the west: travels and transculturation in 1920s Spain
Prado-Fonts, Carles
China
transculturation
representation
Vicente Blasco Ibáñez
Federico García Sanchiz
Xina
transculturació
representació
Vicente Blasco Ibáñez
Federico García Sanchiz
China
transculturación
representación
Vicente Blasco Ibáñez
Federico García Sanchiz
Acculturation
Aculturació
Aculturación
title_short Writing China from the rest of the west: travels and transculturation in 1920s Spain
title_full Writing China from the rest of the west: travels and transculturation in 1920s Spain
title_fullStr Writing China from the rest of the west: travels and transculturation in 1920s Spain
title_full_unstemmed Writing China from the rest of the west: travels and transculturation in 1920s Spain
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dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Prado-Fonts, Carles
author Prado-Fonts, Carles
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dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv China
transculturation
representation
Vicente Blasco Ibáñez
Federico García Sanchiz
Xina
transculturació
representació
Vicente Blasco Ibáñez
Federico García Sanchiz
China
transculturación
representación
Vicente Blasco Ibáñez
Federico García Sanchiz
Acculturation
Aculturació
Aculturación
topic China
transculturation
representation
Vicente Blasco Ibáñez
Federico García Sanchiz
Xina
transculturació
representació
Vicente Blasco Ibáñez
Federico García Sanchiz
China
transculturación
representación
Vicente Blasco Ibáñez
Federico García Sanchiz
Acculturation
Aculturació
Aculturación
description Scholarship on the representation of China in the West generally assumes a direct interaction characterized by a colonial dynamics. This article shows what happens when a third agent - neither colonizer nor colonized - enters the picture and looks at two responses from Spanish texts written during the 1920s: whereas Vicente Blasco Ibáñez's China chapters in his well-known La vuelta al mundo de un novelista [1924] dissolve the Spanish position into the voice of the colonizer, Federico García Sanchiz's La ciudad milagrosa [1926] uses an external perspective to articulate a more critical view of the Western presence in Shanghai that is nevertheless subjected to a formal style that homogenizes the narrative. I argue that both works have trouble offering a coherent representation of China that is driven by their Spanish positionality. This proves not only the ambivalence of (Spanish) representations of China in the twentieth century but also the strength of the discourse generated by colonial powers, which ends up expanding its actual scope: here, domination was not only exerted in China, but also, discursively, within the West itself. This ultimately shows that we must not completely denationalize the study of cross-cultural representations.
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