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Author | : Jeffrey Mather |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 168 |
Release | : 2019-10-10 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1000727483 |
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From the travel writing of the eccentric plant collector and Reginald Farrer, to Emily Hahn’s insider depictions of bohemian life in semi-colonial Shanghai, to Ezra Pound’s mediated ‘journeys’ to Southwest China via the explorer Joseph Rock – Anglo-American representations of China during the first half of the twentieth century were often unconventional in terms of style, form, and content. By examining a range of texts that were written in the flux of travel – including poems, novels, autobiographies – this study argues that the tumultuous social and political context of China’s Republican Period (1912-49) was a key setting for conceptualizing cultural modernity in global and transnational terms. In contrast with accounts that examine China’s influence on Western modernism through language, translation, and discourse, the book recovers a materialist engagement with landscapes, objects, and things as transcribed through travel, ethnographic encounter, and embodied experience. The book is organized by three themes which suggest formal strategies through which notions cultural modernity were explored or contested: borderlands, cosmopolitan performances, and mobile poetics. As it draws from archival sources in order to develop these themes, this study offers a place-based historical perspective on China’s changing status in Western literary cultures.
Author | : Bonnie S. McDougall |
Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 516 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 9780231110853 |
Download The Literature of China in the Twentieth Century Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A historical survey of 20th-century Chinese literature, this book chronicles the writers who - continuing in the Chinese tradition of using literature to exert moral, social, and political leadership - debated the nature, development and future of Chinese society.
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Publisher | : University of Hawaii Press |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 2003-05-31 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780824826901 |
Download Stories for Saturday Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In the first half of the twentieth century, urban Chinese regularly lost themselves in tales of scandalous affairs, tender romances, and splendid acts of martial gallantry--standard reading fare on Saturdays among city dwellers craving entertainment and escape. Openly disdained by many intellectuals for their frothy content and maudlin appeal, these tales have been largely ignored in histories and anthologies of modern Chinese fiction both in China and the West. Recently, however, increasing attention has been paid to this fiction and its place in the vibrant tradition of Chinese writing during a period of rapid cultural change. The stories selected and translated here invited Chinese readers to enter worlds at once connected to and removed from their familiar surroundings. Today, the stories have become a record of what urban life was actually like, as well as what readers then wished it to be. Like Chinese from decades past indulging in a pleasurable hour or two on a Saturday afternoon, readers of English can now enjoy and learn from these diverse stories, expertly translated. The volume's afterword provides valuable insights into this long-overlooked area of modern Chinese literature.
Author | : Ellen Widmer |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 459 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Family & Relationships |
ISBN | : 0674325028 |
Download From May Fourth to June Fourth Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
What do Chinese literature and film inspired by the Cultural Revolution (1966–1976) have in common with media of the May Fourth movement (1918–1930)? This book demonstrates several shared aims: to liberate narrative arts from aesthetic orthodoxies, to draw on foreign sources for inspiration, and to free individuals from social conformity.
Author | : Michel Hockx |
Publisher | : University of Hawaii Press |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : |
Download The Literary Field of Twentieth-century China Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A collection of essays which address literary sociology with the intention of illuminating modern China, its literature and those who work in the field. The sociological background to the production and consumption of literary texts is examined, shedding light on their meaning and structure.
Author | : Chih-tsing Hsia |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 239 |
Release | : 1976 |
Genre | : China |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Ezra Pound |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 269 |
Release | : 2008-02-21 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 019923860X |
Download Ezra Pound's Chinese Friends Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
No literary figure of the past century - in America or perhaps in any other Western country - is comparable to Ezra Pound in the scope and depth of his exchange with China. To this day, scholars and students still find it puzzling that this influential poet spent a lifetime incorporating Chinese language, literature, history, and philosophy into Anglo-American modernism. How well did Pound know Chinese? Was he guided exclusively by eighteenth to nineteenth-century orientalists inhis various Chinese projects? Did he seek guidance from Chinese peers? Those who have written about Pound and China have failed to address this fundamental question. No one could do so just a few years ago when the letters Pound wrote to his Chinese friends were sealed or had not been found. This bookbrings together 162 revealing letters between Pound and nine Chinese intellectuals, eighty-five of them newly opened up and none previously printed. Accompanied by editorial introductions and notes, these selected letters make available for the first time the forgotten stories of Pound and his Chinese friends. They illuminate a dimension in Pound's career that has been neglected: his dynamic interaction with people from China over a span of forty-five years from 1914 until 1959. This selectionwill also be a documentary record of a leading modernist's unparalleled efforts to pursue what he saw as the best of China, including both his stumbles and his triumphs.
Author | : Yomi Braester |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 294 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : |
Download Witness Against History Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This study offers fresh readings of milestones in twentieth-century Chinese fiction, film, and drama and argues that they have questioned the faith in historical progress and in the viability of a sphere of free debate.
Author | : Douglas Kerr |
Publisher | : Hong Kong University Press |
Total Pages | : 255 |
Release | : 2007-05-01 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9622098452 |
Download A Century of Travels in China Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Writings of travelers have shaped ideas about an evolving China, while preconceived ideas about China also shaped the way they saw the country. A Century of Travels in China explores the impressions of these writers on various themes, from Chinese cities and landscapes to the work of Europeans abroad. From the time of the first Opium War to the declaration of the People's Republic, China's history has been one of extraordinary change and stubborn continuities. At the same time, the country has beguiled, scared and puzzled people in the West. The Victorian public admired and imitated Chinese fashions, in furniture and design, gardens and clothing, while maintaining a generally negative idea of the Chinese empire as pagan, backward and cruel. In the first half of the twentieth century, the fascination continued. Most foreigners were aware that revolutionary changes were taking place in Chinese politics and society, yet most still knew very little about the country. But what about those few people from the English-speaking world who had first-hand experience of the place? What did they have to say about the "real" China? To answer this question, we have to turn to the travel accounts and memoirs of people who went to see for themselves, during China's most traumatic century. While this book represents the work of expert scholars, it is also accessible to non-specialists with an interest in travel writing and China, and care has been taken to explain the critical terms and ideas deployed in the essays from recent scholarship of the travel genre.
Author | : Irene Eber |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 218 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Download Chinese and Jews Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A collection of essays translated from the English, some of them published previously. Pp. 62-91, "Ha-ya'ad Shanghai: Heterei kenissah ve-asherot ma'avar, 1938-1941" ("Destination Shanghai: Entry Permits and Transit Certificates, 1939-1941"), discuss the immigration of European Jews to Shanghai during the Holocaust. After the "Kristallnacht" pogrom thousands of Jews were forced by the Nazis to leave Germany and Austria; since most countries would not accept them, many fled to Shanghai. The port and a part of the city were officially extra-territorial, and there was no passport inspection. In August 1939 both the Japanese authorities and the Shanghai Municipal Council, fearing a huge influx of poverty-stricken refugees, restricted immigration; however, the restrictions varied, and many Jews managed to obtain permits. In July 1940 there were further restrictions, but by then it had become more difficult to leave Europe in any case.