Bringing the World Home : Appropriating the West in Late Qing and Early Republican China /

Bringing the World Home sheds new light on China's vibrant cultural life between 1895 and 1919--a crucial period that marks a watershed between the conservative old regime and the ostensibly iconoclastic New Culture of the 1920s. Although generally overlooked in the effort to understand modern...

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Main Author: Huters, Theodore
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press, 2005.
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505 0 |a pt. 1. Late Qing ideas -- China as origin -- Appropriations: another look at Yan Fu and western ideas -- New ways of writing -- New theories of the novel -- pt. 2. Late Qing novels -- Wu Jianren: engaging the world -- Melding East and West: Wu Jianren's New story of the stone -- Impossible representations: visions of China and the West in Flower in a sea of retribution. -- pt. 3. The new republic -- The contest over universal values -- Swimming against the tide: the Shanghai of Zhu Shouju -- Lu Xun and the crisis of figuration. 
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