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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Autor Principal: Huters, Theodore
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:inglés
Publicado: Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press, 2005.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.