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Challenging the reigning view of literary historians has been that the May Fourth movement of 1919 marks the division between the traditional and the modern in Chinese literature, this book argues that signs of reform and innovation can be discerned long before May Fourth.

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'The outstanding merit of David Wang's Fin-de-siècle Splendor is bestcharacterized by quoting the concluding sentence of this impressive study oflate Qing fiction However preliminary, I hope this study has conveyed the sense of wonder and pleasure that any reader must feel when suddenly aware thata literature is on the verge of recovering itself, of letting all its voicesspeak as if the departing century had at least learned from its painful experiments and was ready to begin again - without the illusion of a wholly new beginning. ... Wang possesses a capacity that is sometimes deplorably rare among scholars: to demonstrate a genuine enthusiasm for his field of study and to transfer this enthusiasm to his readers.' Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society

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Contents 1 2 3 4 5 6

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      Publisher: Stanford University Press
      Publication Date: 01/06/1997
      ISBN13: 9780804728454, 978-0804728454
      ISBN10: 0804728453
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      Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Challenging the reigning view of literary historians has been that the May Fourth movement of 1919 marks the division between the traditional and the modern in Chinese literature, this book argues that signs of reform and innovation can be discerned long before May Fourth.

      Trade Review
      'The outstanding merit of David Wang's Fin-de-siècle Splendor is bestcharacterized by quoting the concluding sentence of this impressive study oflate Qing fiction However preliminary, I hope this study has conveyed the sense of wonder and pleasure that any reader must feel when suddenly aware thata literature is on the verge of recovering itself, of letting all its voicesspeak as if the departing century had at least learned from its painful experiments and was ready to begin again - without the illusion of a wholly new beginning. ... Wang possesses a capacity that is sometimes deplorably rare among scholars: to demonstrate a genuine enthusiasm for his field of study and to transfer this enthusiasm to his readers.' Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society

      Table of Contents
      Contents 1 2 3 4 5 6

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