Description
Book SynopsisAn analysis of the Chinese experience of modernity through the literary works, films and other cultural artefacts that represent it. Examines crucial episodes in the creation of Chinese modernity during the turbulent 20th-century, this book will be useful to students of China, Asian studies, literary criticism, and cultural studies.
Trade Review“Containing a series of penetrating analyses of landmark cultural works from the entire course of the twentieth century, Chinese Modern represents the most comprehensive account of modern Chinese literature that has ever been published in English. Tang also illuminates—like no one has before—the various ways in which the looming imperative of modernity has left its image on the imagination of modern China.”—Theodore Huters, University of California at Los Angeles
“Read
Chinese Modern for a journey through China's ‘long twentieth century.’ Xiaobing Tang as guide shows how imaginative sympathy for one's subject nourishes critical acuity.”—Norma Field, University of Chicago
Table of ContentsList of Illustrations ix
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction 1
Part I 11
Part II 163
Afterword 341
Glossary 349
Selected Bibliography 357
Index 369
