Haiyan Lee, "Revolution of the Heart: A Genealogy of Love in China, 1900-1950," (Stanford University Press, 2022)

This book is an engagingly written critical genealogy of the idea of "love" in modern Chinese literature, thought, and popular culture. It examines a wide range of texts, including literary, historical, philosophical, anthropological, and popular cultural genres from the late imperial period to the beginning of the socialist era. It traces the process by which love became an all-pervasive subject of representation and discourse, as well as a common language in which modern notions of self, gender, family, sexuality, and nation were imagined and contested. Winner of the Association for Asian Studies 2009 Joseph Levenson Book Prize for the best English-language academic book on post-1900 China Concept of Love in Modern Chinese Literature Critical Genealogy of Love in China Love in Chinese Thought and Culture Modern Chinese Notions of Love Self and Gender in Chinese Literature Family and Sexuality in Chinese Culture National Identity and Love in China Love Discourse in Chinese Popular Culture Chinese Literature from Late Imperial to Socialist Era Joseph Levenson Book Prize 2009 Winner Love and Modern Chinese Identity East Asian Studies Podcasts Chinese History Podcasts