Taking China to the world the cultural production of modernity
"This book looks at the overarching challenge of the "modernity" that continues to be the master discourse of Chinese society. The key to this book, as it is perhaps to all of modern Chinese intellectual history, is the instability and/or fluidity of the key concepts anchored in the b...
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| Sprache: | English |
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Amherst, New York
Cambria Press
[2022]
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| Schriftenreihe: | Cambria sinophone world series
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Inhaltsangabe:
- Introduction : stating the problem
- The obscure face of modernity in early 20th-century Chinese literature
- Wenxue and new practices of writing in post-1840 China
- Rethinking the transformation of modern Chinese prose
- 'A whole month of hesitation' : further thoughts on Yan Fu and his translations
- Cultivating the "great divide" : popular literature in early 20th-century China
- The advent of the modern as business venture : the case of the commercial press