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"The overriding narrative of Chinese political, cultural, and literary history of the past century has been dominated by either/or thinking and conflicts derived from opposing binaries. Chinese intellectuals have been required to take sides in debates such as revolution versus antirevolution, progress versus regression, tradition versus modernity, the West versus the East, and leftist versus rightist. Jianmei Liu uses the concept of Third Space, as coined by Homi Bhabha and further theorized by Edward Soja, to explore the ways in which, from the 1930s to today, Chinese thinkers at home and abroad have attempted to find a way out of these binaries. Liu's choice of case studies spans the political philosophy of Zhang Dongsun, who tried to forge a path that assimilated the benefits of both capitalism and socialism, mediating between the Kuomintang (KMT) and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) during the Republic period, to Jin Yong's martial arts fiction and Nobel laureate Gao Xingjian's transmedia practice in his cine-poems. She ends with a look at what's happening today, including the controversy over Fang Fang's Wuhan Diary"--