{"product_id":"imagining-india-in-modern-china-9780231205702","title":"Imagining India in Modern China","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGal Gvili examines how Chinese writers’ image of India shaped the making of a new literature and spurred efforts to achieve literary decolonization. She argues that multifaceted visions of Sino-Indian connections empowered Chinese literary figures to resist Western imperialism and its legacies through novel forms and genres.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGvili’s brilliant study unearths the archives of modern China’s India and their stakes for the present.  \u003ci\u003eImagining India in Modern China \u003c\/i\u003eshowcases the importance of Indian literature to Chinese anticolonial thought. More startlingly, it has us revisit the British Empire’s role in India-China relations as a literary—and not just a historical—mediation. -- Tamara T. Chin, author of \u003ci\u003eSavage Exchange: Han Imperialism, Chinese Literary Style, and the Economic Imagination\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book frees us from the usual story of China and the West and points to new horizons for scholarship and teaching. \u003ci\u003eImagining India in Modern China \u003c\/i\u003ewill astonish readers with its rich array of sources and its stories of writers and thinkers who traveled—and read, wrote, and translated—across the Pacific and Indian Oceans. -- Michael Gibbs Hill, author of \u003ci\u003eLin Shu, Inc.: Translation and the Making of Modern Chinese Culture\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRich in historical detail, \u003ci\u003eImagining India in Modern China\u003c\/i\u003e offers a fascinating look at the development of comparative anticolonial thinking and its imagination of a shared precolonial Asian past. Gvili shows how this attempt to get past the colonial world struggled with the dominance of its knowledge practices, especially those codified in English. An invaluable work for scholars of world literature and Global South literature and thought. -- Aamir R. Mufti, author of \u003ci\u003eForget English! Orientalisms and World Literatures\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eImagining India in Modern China\u003c\/i\u003e offers an outstanding and much-needed analysis of the Chinese engagement with Indian literature during the twentieth century. Through detailed case studies and by demonstrating the possibilities and limitations of the “south-south” paradigm, Gvili makes significant contributions to the fields of postcolonial studies, Asian literature, and China-India studies. -- Tansen Sen, author of \u003ci\u003eIndia, China, and the World: A Connected History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGal Gvili's remarkable \u003ci\u003eImagining India in Modern China\u003c\/i\u003e is a fascinating and pathbreaking exploration of the importance of India to modern Chinese literature and culture, and in particular the anticolonial dynamics of the Chinese Indian imagination. Contributing significantly to the decolonization of both comparative literature and Asian studies and reconfiguring China-India engagement, this book charts much-needed scholarly pathways. -- Karen Thornber, author of \u003ci\u003eGlobal Healing: Literature, Advocacy, Care\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eImagining India \u003c\/i\u003ewill offer provocative reading for all those  working on China and the Global South, as well as on issues of realism  and religion in modern Chinese literature. * Modern Chinese Literature and Culture Resource Center *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: South-North-South\u003cbr\u003e1. Unsettling the Violence of Comparison\u003cbr\u003e2. What Is Rising There in the East?\u003cbr\u003e3. Folklore, (Il)literacy, and Cyclical Realism\u003cbr\u003e4. \u003ci\u003eŚakuntalā\u003c\/i\u003e in China\u003cbr\u003eEpilogue: After 1962: The Ongoing Literary Work of Mourning\u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eBibliography\u003cbr\u003eIndex","brand":"Columbia University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48864263831895,"sku":"9780231205702","price":80.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780231205702.jpg?v=1722271135","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/imagining-india-in-modern-china-9780231205702","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}